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    What Will Today's Cities Look Like in the Future?

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    Image of phoghat phoghat
    09/18/09

    In reply to What Will Today's Cities Look Like in the Future?

    In a spooky voice, with a flashlight under my chin: "In The Year 2000"
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    09/17/09

    In reply to What Will Today's Cities Look Like in the Future?
    I live near Golden and work (currently) around 120th and I-25. You and I and Mrs. Overclock (etc.) should get together for dinner sometime!
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    09/17/09

    @Chip Overclock: (Sorry, fumble fingered that reply.)
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    Image of Boas_MC Boas_MC
    09/17/09

    In reply to What Will Today's Cities Look Like in the Future?
    I think the more interesting shots from Minority Report and I, Robot would have been those that show that much of those cities' current architecture is still very much intact, including brick buildings with exterior fire escapes, etc. Those shots give a much more organic sense of what happens to cities over time, rather than what the shots here imply, which is that somehow cities will be razed to the ground and built back up from scratch. I guess what I'm saying is that in envisioning urban futures, the filmmakers had a more nuanced vision than what these stills give them credit for.
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    Image of hamshank hamshank
    09/17/09

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    excuse me: we seem to be lacking the ones where it's the cockroaches riding around on horses, crunching our bones under-hoof ...
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    Image of Ryozenzuzex Ryozenzuzex
    09/16/09

    In reply to What Will Today's Cities Look Like in the Future?

    What about New Chicago?
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    09/16/09

    In reply to What Will Today's Cities Look Like in the Future?
    The big pink building shown in Woody Allen's SLEEPER ("The Institute") is the Mesa Laboratory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder Colorado. Designed by I. M. Pei. I worked there for several years. Much of it is open to the public, it has free parking, and there are hiking trails in the foothills above it.
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    Image of Craig Dawson Craig Dawson
    09/17/09

    @Chip Overclock:
    Chip, do you currently live in the Boulder area? I live in Denver, and have been to NCAR once a few years ago.
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    09/17/09

    @Craig Dawson: I live near Golden and work (currently) around 120th and I-25. You and I and Mrs. Overclock (etc.) should get together for dinner sometime!
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    Image of Meldrick Meldrick
    09/16/09

    In reply to What Will Today's Cities Look Like in the Future?
    Aw, has it really been that long since Buck Rogers boogied around in New Chicago that you'd forget that, but use TWO images from a freakin' toy cartoon?

    This is an outrage!!!11!!1!!
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    Image of Elpon Elpon
    09/16/09

    In reply to What Will Today's Cities Look Like in the Future?
    I can never picture Paris without a fiery meteor hurtling toward it.
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    Image of Smitros Smitros
    09/16/09

    @Elpon:
    That waiter must have been a real dick.
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    Image of slaine17 slaine17
    09/16/09

    In reply to What Will Today's Cities Look Like in the Future?

    Another London
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    Image of badasscat badasscat
    09/17/09

    @slaine17: That's a lot of balls.
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    Image of Starlionblue Starlionblue
    09/16/09

    In reply to What Will Today's Cities Look Like in the Future?
    TLDR. ;)

    Seriously, the slide show engine needs work. I would like:
    - An option for an actual slide show, where the next image loads automatically. Don't forget an option for choosing the interval.
    - The "next" and "previous" buttons should NOT move depending on the size of the pic. Put them in a fixed location so I don't have to keep moving the mouse.
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    Image of Gisleburt Gisleburt
    09/16/09

    In reply to What Will Today's Cities Look Like in the Future?
    Great collection. As has been pointed out by others, New Earth and Alternate Earth are the wrong way round, and some of the shots don't have all that much of a city in them (or it looks just the same), but its great to see so many different ideas people have had about our future lives, all in one place.
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    Image of 2x2 hands of blue 2x2 hands of blue
    09/16/09

    In reply to What Will Today's Cities Look Like in the Future?
    What about the Dollhouse version of LA in Epitaph One?!
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    Image of Lee Millar Lee Millar
    09/16/09

    In reply to What Will Today's Cities Look Like in the Future?
    When you look at all these future predictions of what form all these cities could take, you see the Utopian optimisim all the way down to the human race committing complete and utter self annihilation. It's a stark contrast and it all comes down to whether you see the glass as half full or half empty. Frankly, I'm in a pessimistic mood right now, but that's today. We'll see what my long term outlook for the human race is like tomorrow.
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    Image of cletar cletar
    09/16/09

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    As an archaeologist, I'd like to pick option "C", please---total obliteration. Thank you.
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    Image of quikboy quikboy
    09/16/09

    In reply to What Will Today's Cities Look Like in the Future?
    I just love it how America's #1, #2, and #3 largest cities are usually on feature lists, as well as some of America's other big cities, but #4 (Houston, TX) rarely gets featured.
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    Image of omegadirective omegadirective
    09/16/09

    @quikboy: In this case, is there a futuristic Houston, Texas rendered on film or TV? If not, then it's hard to blame the compiler of the list.
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    Image of cletar cletar
    09/16/09

    @quikboy: Well, Houston gets nuked in "Independence Day," if that makes you feel any better.
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    Image of PhyrePhox PhyrePhox
    09/16/09

    @cletar: Dallas (#5, I believe) was "New Detroit" in RoboCop. Too meta?
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    Image of Dunny0 Dunny0
    09/16/09

    @cletar: And Zod pretty much leveled Planet Huston in Superman II.
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    Image of cletar cletar
    09/16/09

    @PhyrePhox: Hmm, that's a good point. If we're using cities that are movie/tv stand-ins for other cities, then the gallery should be nothing but pictures of Vancouver and Toronto.
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    Image of komododave komododave
    09/17/09

    @quikboy: Houston doesn't have anything internationally iconic to destroy/eclipse to make that "oohh wow" moment required in futuristic epics, unless you count the oil industry. What the hell does a futuristic rough neck cowboy town look like anyway?
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    Image of cletar cletar
    09/17/09

    @komododave: It looks like "Outland."
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