Read about 2063 as imagined in 1963
April 14, 2008 9:24 PM Subscribe
In 1963, General Dynamics Astronautics asked politicians, scientists, and military commanders to speculate on the potential state of the world in 2063, recording all these speculations in a book, and sealing it in a time capsule that was lost during the demolition of the General Dynamics Astronautics building. Thankfully, the entirety of the book is available as a download thanks to the fine folks at Paleo-Future. Found Via.
sealing it in a time capsule that was lost during the demolition of the General Dynamics Astronautics building
Probably says more about the potential future state of the world than the time capsule would have done.
posted by ikkyu2 at 12:55 AM on April 15, 2008 [2 favorites]
Probably says more about the potential future state of the world than the time capsule would have done.
posted by ikkyu2 at 12:55 AM on April 15, 2008 [2 favorites]
I'm actually a little more interested in the story of how this time capsule got destroyed. Perhaps they just forgot about it, but I find it ironic that a company that had such visions of the future had its creation destroyed by the future incarnation of that company.
posted by crapmatic at 4:52 AM on April 15, 2008
posted by crapmatic at 4:52 AM on April 15, 2008
I doubt they predicted their book was going to be freely available and widely ignored on ARPANET.
posted by Bathtub Bobsled at 6:57 AM on April 15, 2008
posted by Bathtub Bobsled at 6:57 AM on April 15, 2008
Hmm. Wonder who the three anonymous contributers were... and why they wanted to remain anonymous.
posted by Guy_Inamonkeysuit at 12:18 PM on April 15, 2008
posted by Guy_Inamonkeysuit at 12:18 PM on April 15, 2008
Why does the print version of a free book by General Dynamics cost $21.88 as "authored" (ie scanned in) by Matt Novak?
posted by humannaire at 5:36 PM on April 15, 2008
posted by humannaire at 5:36 PM on April 15, 2008
....especially since it is only 50 pages? Via lulu, such a book(let) can retail for less than $10 even with a couple bucks profit.
posted by humannaire at 5:38 PM on April 15, 2008
posted by humannaire at 5:38 PM on April 15, 2008
....oh jeez, I figured out why: The booklet was scanned into full-color documents before being turned into a pdf to upload as source copy at lulu.
The idea must have been to capture the sepia tone pages and spot-color (red) page titles.
Personally, I just needed the aesthetics of the tone of the writing.
posted by humannaire at 5:53 PM on April 15, 2008
The idea must have been to capture the sepia tone pages and spot-color (red) page titles.
Personally, I just needed the aesthetics of the tone of the writing.
posted by humannaire at 5:53 PM on April 15, 2008
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