How many of you, like me, had shelves full of books full of images of suburban life being enjoyed on the edge of plexiglass toroid in geostationery orbit?
You can relive the optimism of you childhood when you thought the future would be “spandex jackets, one for everyone” at NASA’s “Space Colony Art from the 1970s” page!
Petafloptimism 
Know that feeling.
Got zoomed back to a time when U.F.O. and Space 1999 fought with my father’s Golden Age SF books to create a visual vocabulary of things to come.
Part of me is still stuck there methinks.
Oh Matt! I’ve been looking for these for years. I thought I was the only person to have had their vision of the 21st century shaped primarily by paintings and illustrations like these.
My only question – where are they? My dreams of being able to see the next country by looking up are shattered.
Had books full of those illustrations? HAVE books full of those illustrations!
I’ve got that book! The one with the picture in above! It’s ace!
And while we’re on the subject: Where are my skycars? And jetpack? And mile-high skyscrapers with bridges between them?
Five asides…
Matt Jones on living in space “How many of you, like me, had shelves full of books full of images of suburban life being enjoyed on the edge of plexiglass toroid in geostationery orbit?” I did! In fact I…