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

H. Pike Oliver focuses on master-planned communities. He is co-author of Transforming the Irvine Ranch: Joan Irvine, William Pereira, Ray Watson, and THE BIG PLAN, published by Routledge in 2022.

Early in his career, Pike 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. For the next three decades, he was involved in master-planned development on the Irvine Ranch in Southern California, as well as other properties in western North America and abroad.

Beginning in 2009, Pike taught real estate development at Cornell University and directed the undergraduate program in Urban and Regional Studies. He relocated to Seattle in 2013 and, from 2016 to 2020, served as a lecturer in the Runstad Department of Real Estate at the University of Washington, where he also served as its chair.

Pike graduated from San Francisco State University's urban studies and planning program and received a master's degree in urban planning from UCLA. He is a member of the American Planning Association and the Urban Land Institute and a founder and emeritus member of the California Planning Roundtable.

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