Comments on: The Monument to Electricity That Never Was http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/2012/05/the-monument-to-electricity-that-never-was/ A history of the future that never was Fri, 17 May 2013 21:40:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Aaron http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/2012/05/the-monument-to-electricity-that-never-was/#comment-516 Aaron Fri, 18 May 2012 19:03:18 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/?p=2440#comment-516 Wow, this piece has inspired a lot of pessimism. I like the idea. His dream is nice and his heart seemed to be in the right place. Thanks Hugo for inspiring so many. I'd like to hear from more dreamers. Wow, this piece has inspired a lot of pessimism. I like the idea. His dream is nice and his heart seemed to be in the right place. Thanks Hugo for inspiring so many. I’d like to hear from more dreamers.

]]> By: Bruce Gaugler http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/2012/05/the-monument-to-electricity-that-never-was/#comment-495 Bruce Gaugler Mon, 07 May 2012 13:45:14 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/?p=2440#comment-495 This idea itself was a monument to the hubris of mankind. What could be built by man that would "make it last for practically all time" if mountains themselve are leveled by the passage of time? Even the pyramids will someday be grains of sand again. That said, how would you like to be the owner of one of those houses and see that monstrosity going up just outside of town? Talk about falling property values! ;-) This idea itself was a monument to the hubris of mankind. What could be built by man that would “make it last for practically all time” if mountains themselve are leveled by the passage of time? Even the pyramids will someday be grains of sand again.

That said, how would you like to be the owner of one of those houses and see that monstrosity going up just outside of town? Talk about falling property values! ;-)

]]> By: cb http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/2012/05/the-monument-to-electricity-that-never-was/#comment-494 cb Mon, 07 May 2012 03:13:28 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/?p=2440#comment-494 i find it interesting that so shortly after the titanic and WWI mr. gernsback insists that a man-made object would (or could) not be destroyed by nature or man himself. i find it interesting that so shortly after the titanic and WWI mr. gernsback insists that a man-made object would (or could) not be destroyed by nature or man himself.

]]> By: Auntiegrav http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/2012/05/the-monument-to-electricity-that-never-was/#comment-493 Auntiegrav Sun, 06 May 2012 16:37:53 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/?p=2440#comment-493 We already have such a monument. Look at the landfills in southeast Asia, where scampering poor people scavenge the results of electricity looking for bits of plastic and microchips to make jewelry to sell for enough money to buy some rice that they could have grown on the land before the landfill was dumped on them by corporations and puppet governments. We are the robots we warn ourselves about. We already have such a monument. Look at the landfills in southeast Asia, where scampering poor people scavenge the results of electricity looking for bits of plastic and microchips to make jewelry to sell for enough money to buy some rice that they could have grown on the land before the landfill was dumped on them by corporations and puppet governments.
We are the robots we warn ourselves about.

]]> By: Jack Metzler http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/2012/05/the-monument-to-electricity-that-never-was/#comment-492 Jack Metzler Sun, 06 May 2012 14:31:02 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/?p=2440#comment-492 Change that to "precepts" please where's my coffee? Change that to “precepts” please where’s my coffee?

]]> By: Jack Metzler http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/2012/05/the-monument-to-electricity-that-never-was/#comment-491 Jack Metzler Sun, 06 May 2012 14:29:14 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/?p=2440#comment-491 Yowser! I've heard of the twentieth century modernists' "Machine in the Garden" recepts, but THAT is ridiculous! Yowser!
I’ve heard of the twentieth century modernists’ “Machine in the Garden” recepts, but THAT is ridiculous!

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