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The Believer - Colossal in Scale, Appalling in Complexity

Few people in 1939 had ever ridden in a plane. Looking down, they saw everything from experimental farms and “floating” airports to seven-lane highways, multi-decked bridges, and radio-controlled traffic moving beneath suspended pedestrian walkways—all radical concepts at the time. More than twenty-four million people waited for up to five hours, in rain and hot sun, to experience it. Today, Futurama is considered the most iconic Fair exhibit of all time.

"I can take a photo of a check and deposit it in my bank account, then turn around and find a new book through a Twitter link and buy it, all while being surveilled by a drone in Afghanistan and keeping track of how many steps I’ve walked. The question is, as it has always been: now what?"

Alexis Madrigal: The Jig Is Up: Time to Get Past Facebook and Invent a New Future - The Atlantic (via thisistheverge)

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thedailywhat:

Photo Series of the Day: Tim Mantoani goes meta for his new book Behind Photographs by photographing famous photographers behind their far-more-famous photographs.

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[wired / kottke.]

(Source: thedailywhat)