Green | August 09, 2009 | 4 comments

June 12, 1957: Future Is Now in Monsanto’s House | This Day In Tech | Wired.com

source: http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/06/dayintech_0612/

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In the 1967 movie, The Graduate, a callow Dustin Hoffman learns that the future is “plastics.” Monsanto anticipated that sage advice by a decade, because almost everything inside the House of the Future was indeed made using plastics, including the walls, ceilings and floors. The family of the future would sit in plastic chairs, and dine on plastic tables using plastic plates and flatware. Fortunately for those of us actually living in the future, the all-plastic scenario was never fully realized.
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4 comments // June 12, 1957: Future Is Now in Monsanto’s House | This Day In Tech | Wired.com

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    • Interesting jmsrmy...... Actually the house profiled in the movie "Sleeper" would have been the preference, and it's currently refurbished and w/ a near perfect view less the ocean.

    • 2 years ago
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    • The future lasted all of 10 years in the Magic Kingdom. The house was removed in 1967 to make way for another Tomorrowland attraction. Actually, “removed” is a bit of an understatement. The House of the Future proved a tough nut, so tough in fact that the demolition crew failed to knock it down with a wrecking ball. Instead, hacksaws and torches were needed to dismantle the structure, piece by piece, in a process that took two weeks.
      (Long, T., 2009, June 12, par. 8)

    • 2 years ago
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