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SDAI-Tech1 — 4/25/2007 1:34:04 AM (archived)

I recall reading an article in a 1946 postwar Fortune magazine, which featured an article on the postwar housing industry, with his circular dome housing and dymaxion car. When I saw the layout I knew where the Jetson's cartoonists swiped the floating disc house from.

His prototype dome house from Fortune:

source: www.orbit.zkm.de

It's plain to see that folks are conformists, generally and manufacturers are risk-adverse.

"My gosh, what will the neighbors think if we lived in such a home!"

"Don't worry Ethel, we're not going to live in some tarnation contraption!"

Perhaps its because homes are such a big investment that builders only add feautures proven to have a visible demand. Which is why folks are still living in colonial and plantation style homes without any consideration of the century. ;-)

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• This Atomic World - ER - 4/23/2007 5:34:15 PM
  • another installment of Uranium Price Update: - podrock - 4/24/2007 8:14:26 PM
  • re: This Atomic World - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/24/2007 2:12:50 AM
    • re: This Atomic World - ER - 4/24/2007 3:26:21 AM
      • How about Tybee Island, Georgia..... - Lindy - 4/24/2007 7:17:31 PM
        • What's even worse.... - Lindy - 4/24/2007 7:22:06 PM
      • re: This Atomic World - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/24/2007 4:37:49 PM
        • You do have a point there - ER - 4/24/2007 5:44:43 PM
          • Chernobyl was a government power plant. - TB - 4/24/2007 5:54:11 PM
            • That's precisely the point I was trying to make, - ER - 4/24/2007 6:01:16 PM
        • missing link - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/24/2007 4:51:45 PM
      • "engineering really hasn't progressed much since the 70s" - TB - 4/24/2007 5:20:28 AM
        • Flat screens - REB - 4/25/2007 2:17:47 PM
        • re: "engineering really hasn't progressed much since the 70s" - ER - 4/24/2007 11:39:17 AM
          • Where are the Teslas and Frank Lloyd Wrights? - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/24/2007 5:39:43 PM
            • re: home design - pops - 4/24/2007 10:43:04 PM
            • Hang-time - podrock - 4/24/2007 6:43:06 PM
              • Fuller... - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/25/2007 1:34:04 AM
            • re: Where are the Teslas and Frank Lloyd Wrights? - TB - 4/24/2007 6:13:35 PM
              • New homes vs old homes. - REB - 4/25/2007 2:38:55 PM
                • You got that right. - TB - 4/25/2007 4:43:56 PM
                • re: cutting down all the trees - pops - 4/25/2007 4:21:26 PM
                  • True - REB - 4/25/2007 4:33:28 PM
                    • And - REB - 4/25/2007 4:36:26 PM
              • Regulations - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/25/2007 2:15:55 AM
            • "Where's progress in home design? " - ER - 4/24/2007 5:57:01 PM
              • re: "Where's progress in home design? " - Lindy - 4/25/2007 4:35:58 AM
              • an overlooked factor in home design - SDG - 4/25/2007 3:48:41 AM
          • re: engineering - TB - 4/24/2007 4:13:14 PM
          • WAY too pessimistic - ARRELL - 4/24/2007 2:54:59 PM
            • "ask how many of them has ever listened to an actual record." - ER - 4/24/2007 6:08:36 PM
              • "Yeah, but we had better music! " - R.L. - 4/24/2007 10:45:57 PM
  • proper management and monitoring... - pops - 4/24/2007 12:04:58 AM
  • Excellent overview. Thanks! - TB - 4/23/2007 5:49:29 PM
    • Pray for Dr Bussard. (n/t) - ER - 4/23/2007 5:51:14 PM