Toni Frissell Wave of the Future October 1948 The Automatic Earth is on the verge of introducing a whole new well over 4 hour video presentation shortly, entitled Facing the Future, which features Nicole Foss with our dear friend and “localizer” Laurence Boomert, and contains all new material only (no, we definitely do not sit still). Facing the Future is more densely jam-packed with information than anything we’ve presented yet (watching it once won’t do), so we’re very and rightly
Read More...Dorothea Lange She likes to sit and watch the geese 1939 Home of Ola self-help sawmill co-op member, Gem County, Idaho What worries me most about the world today, in the last weeks before Christmas and New Year’s Day 2014, is that all the plans we make for our futures and more importantly our children’s futures are DOA. This is because nobody has a clue what the future will bring, and that’s more than just some general statement. Is the
Read More...Maurer Miss Universe June 1928 3rd International Pageant of Pulchritude and 9th Annual Bathing Girl Revue, Galveston, Texas Last week, I was reading parts of a report issued by Japanese investment bank Nomura, which started out saying that the “Global Financial Crisis” is over. If I lay out a statement like that side by side with a lot of other things I see, I can only conclude that Nomura doesn’t reside in the same universe I do. Well, it’s either
Read More...Ralph Amdursky Model Men March 1943 OK, this is enough, I’m getting seriously pissed off now. Time to introduce an idea I’ve been thinking about for a while. That is, let’s combine modern technologies. First: Buy lots of 3-D printers. They’ll be real cheap soon. And why not order them from Amazon, just for the perverted irony of it. Second: Use these printers to produce an endless supply of drones. Third: Send those drones out there to spy on (or
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