The Astounding World of the Future

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Written By H. Pike Oliver

futurama_img_5This spoof mocks a 20th century newsreel about what turned out to be largely accurate predictions of what life in the USA would be like in the year 2000.

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This is the General Motors film about The Futurama exhibit at the 1939 World's Fair in New York City which was an attempt to simulate what life would be like in the USA by 1950.

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Part II of the Genearal Motors fils about The Futurama exhibit.

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And here is a look at the future from around 1956 from a film about Monsanto Corporation's "House of the Future" in the (old) Tomorrowland at Disneyland in Anaheim, California.

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There is a Part II to the "House of the Future".

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This one is a clip from the 1967 film 1999 A.D. which shows a family of the future shopping, paying bills and using electronic mail from home.

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H. Pike Oliver

Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, H. Pike Oliver has worked on real estate development strategies and master-planned communities since the early 1970s, including nearly eight years at the Irvine Company. He resided in the City of Irvine for five years in the 1980s and nine years in the 1990s.

As the founder and sole proprietor of URBANEXUS, Oliver works on advancing equitable and sustainable real estate development and natural lands management. He is also an affiliate instructor at the Runstad Department of Real Estate at the University of Washington.

Early in his career, Oliver worked for public agencies, including the California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research where he was a principal contributor to An Urban Strategy for California. Prior to relocating to Seattle in 2013, Oliver taught real estate development at Cornell University and directed the undergraduate program in urban and regional studies. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute, the American Planning Association and a founder and emeritus member of the California Planning Roundtable.

Oliver is a graduate of the urban studies and planning program at San Francisco State University and earned a master’s degree in urban planning at UCLA.

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