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Wednesday, 30 July 2008
Our Wonderful Future
Mood:  chillin'
Topic: Futurism

Mega tower designed to buffer population growth in London (via io9).  It is designed to hold 100,000 people and serve there every need from shops and schools to theaters and governmental offices.  It would even pull fresh water from the clouds that it reached up to.  But I wonder, if the mega tower planned in Japan could cause some earthquakes, what would this one do? 

Lilypad floating city for climate refugees (via Inhabitat).  So, if we're prepared for the flooding of the earth, we could do it much more fashionably than what was shown in Waterworld.

Flooded London by Squint/Opera at the London Festival of Architecture 2008(via Inhabitat) gives a little better idea of what we might be dealing with if the seas did rise.  I wonder though, how London's mega tower will deal with this. 

I've been amazed by the ingenuity behind the Echo Park Time Travel Mart since I first heard about it.  These time travel vacation posters are too great to properly discribe, and the 826LA nonprofit creative writing program behind it all is inspired! (via io9). 

Federation Island, just one man-made island Covered by Life in the Fast Lane (via Neatorama).  Considering that a lot of the man-made islands in planning and in process are built up from the sea level, mightn't they get flooded along with London? 

Modular Moonbase plans for eventual planting by Ares in the next decade (via io9

Something a little closer in time:  the Oasis mammoth cruise ship will be launched next year by Royal Carribean Cruise Ships (via Neatorama

And finally, a little wearable futurism.  The TX54 concept watch sticker at Timex 2154 competition.  Hopefully it will come to be before 2154.   (via Popgadget


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