Art by José Luiz Benício da Fonseca, for the South America Insurance Group
Four more months
Pierre Mion
Angus McKie’s 1976 cover art for “Future City,” edited by Roger Elwood
A retrofuture skyscraper concept by Günter Radtke
Pool arcade by Paul Alexander
'Sea Scrapers,' by Günter Radtke, 1974
Here’s the cover and opening pages of Arthur C. Clarke's 1986 future-telling book July 20, 2019. Published 17 years after the moon landing, it predicts what the world will look like on the event’s 50th anniversary.
“Clarke invokes what you might expect in the way of supercomputers and laserdiscs that will respond to your voice command and place the world's learning at your fingertips. Meanwhile, lovable robots will do the drudge work, provide companionship, and allow you leisure to pursue entertainments like movies that outdo each other in special effects or sports that will be based on a new breed of brainy/steroid-built superjocks. Had enough? Wait. Clarke also supplies his versions of hospital days and death-defying regimens. The scenarios here smack of Coma with illicit dealing in organ transplants, aborted babies as source of brain cells and so on.
Clarke also hypothesizes war in 2019--an affair that starts as a rebellion in East Germany and escalates. An epilogue laments the decline in the United Nations, but sees hope in further developments of one of Clarke's own favorite: projects: satellite communications. It will make earth a global family yet, he predicts. This note of optimism and a long, Clarke-at-his-best description of life in a 2019 space station (based on present experience) lift the book out of the veil of joyless hardware.”
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The future in space, illustrated by Davis Meltzer, Don Davis, Pamela Lee, and Vincent Di Fate.
Source: humanoidhistory