Today we have yet another panel fromArthur Radebaugh ’s excellent nigher Than We Think series of comical strips . Though the airstrip often run on Sunday , the more eagle - eyed amongst you ( read : nerdy ) may notice that this particular strip was published in the Toronto Star Weekly on Saturday , May 2 , 1959 .
Before alternative get-up-and-go policy became a political wedge issue , techno - utopians like Radebaugh advertize renewable energy as sleek and sexy . Solar vim was conjecture topower our cable car , drive our distance coloniesandmake deserts peak . As we infix into a unexampled epoch of optimism — driven by the New Optimists , if you will — it seems that “ the future ” just might become less politicized and more dependent upon the scientific , the moral force and the rational .
But then again , possibly I ’m just an optimist .
Do n’t be surprised if many of tomorrow ’s home are built on turntable . They would slowly pivot all day long to get maximum benefit from health - giving sun ray and insure heat in winter .
This warm and colourful twelvemonth - round conception is adapted from an aluminum firm ’s summertime house which has been studied and admired by designer . It would be build , together with a patio , over a service of process and garage area .
Ground and keep horizontal surface would connect through a glass - enclosed staircase . Two - manner glass could bestow the external panorama to those on the inside , while protecting the latter from inquisitive passersby .
Next calendar week : Space Farmers
A special thanks to Tom Z. for a color scan of this cartoon strip .
This post in the beginning appear atPaleofuture.com .
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