[WTF] We were headed towards some cool future in the 1930's

[Shadow(of)Death]

And then it didn't really pan out.

More with articles here.

Not to say we don't have some cool stuff now, but everything these days has to be economically viable and what not . . . regulations . . . testing . . . bla.

 

[malibru]

I think there are more reasons than eco-friendly ones for why these ideas didn't take off.

 

[jotun]

cool future = everything looks like a zeppelin?

 

[Horatio Balderdash]

More like everything looks like it's made of dildoes.

 

[Pengo]

listen, the future is nano and you cant even see it so dont worry about it

 

[Quaduce]

Fallout 3

 

[slogg]

imagine that in 1930 they thought in the future the style of everything was going to be streamline moderne

that was the point of that entire artistic style was to look futuristic, and to make everything look like a boat

edit: didn't read, the article says the same thing