theatlantic:The Lost Dream of Trippy ’70s Space Colonies
No longer can we begin to imagine that we’d build space colonies in outer space. Serious intellectuals and writers couldn’t even be bothered to handwavingly dismiss such an enterprise. Hell, in two days, we won’t even have a Shuttle to get to the International Space Station, the tiny, shriveled, boring version of the wild future a few influential dreamers once thought they could build.
(via bbook)