The purpose of humanity isn’t to work more, it’s to work less and have more leisure. This is what sets us apart. We must develop, build, and automate away all the mindless monotony of the day so that we can choose to happily work on the hard problems of life.
Propeller cars are something that were reinvented over and over for the first 20-30 years of automobiles (notably, quite a few in France), and I absolutely love the potential because they do make some sort of sense in theory.
My two favorites are the 1932 Helicron (France), and especially the 1936 Schlörwagen Pillbug (Germany, modified by the Soviets to feature a radial propeller in 1942).
STAY SAFE!! [ID: the Gilbert Baker pride flag with the words “Happy pride to all those who are unable to celebrate openly and safely. You are loved and seen!” in all-caps black text over it. /end ID]
I love 70s-90s scifi. People fighting to retrieve AI programs on floppy disks. Passing around complicated computer programs on magnetic tape. Sending each other faxes between FTL spaceships. It's the best.
Sneakernet was/is a real thing and I love that even then they affixed and extropolated on it in the scifi realm. Here’s one of my favorite quotes by Andrew S. Tannenbaum.
> “Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.”
i want to thank the 1920s-1930s third wheel who saw their two friends lying in bed together in their underwear and stocking garters reading a book with their legs wrapped around each other and said “i am going to take a photograph of this”
Reblogging this again because please, please click the link and look at the other photos but more importantly read the words written by the owners of the collection because it’s so touching and heart-warming
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