Modern day Los Angeles ... 1988 futurism's dream denied.
Modern day Los Angeles ... 1988 futurism's dream denied.
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L.A. 2013 - On April 3, 1988, the Los Angeles Times Magazine published a 25-year look ahead to 2013. This year, USC professor Jerry Lockenour is using the series of articles in a graduate engineering class he teaches.
http://documents.latimes.com/la-2013/
It’s so quaint to look back and remember how optimistic things were at the end of the Reagan years...
In 1988, the muslims hadn’t yet invaded full force.
has your sonar shield been checked recently?
Most Utopian futurists make the same mistake. They assume that all society(ies) progress more or less uniformly together.
The truth is that the more technologically advanced, the more stratified they become. An elite emerges who master the technology and the systems, leaving the other 90-95% in the dust.
Then they become extremely specialized, spoiled and decadent. They forget what it was that made them great and the whole thing falls down and gets swallowed in barbarism. Another dark age, and then another great civilization emerges. How many times has this pattern repeated itself in the brief 35,000 or so years since the rise of Homo sapiens?
Won’t be long and LA will look like a cross between Detroit and Tiujuana.
“They’ll be Spandex Jackets one for everyone.”
So, none of the 30 futurists gave a prediction that the LA Times would no longer be around?
During the 40s and 50s Los Angeles was growing and apparently a pleasant place to live. The Hispanics were to a large degree, descendants of the Spaniards who originally settled the area.
Many of the White residents were formely wealthy people from the South who moved to LA after the war. Some of those were Pattons family and John Mosby.
Los Angeles was a progressive city in a progressive state. At the time that sounded good. Like they were using modern technology, modern traffic management and good government.
I don’t know what all changed it but letting illegas in in mass certainly has hurt some. Also large numbers of Blacks came in from St. Louis and that area.
Next was the waves of Hippies who were basically some of the most worthless people on earth. People like Black Panthers, The gang which kidnapped Patty Hearst. Basically most of them are loosely affiliated with Satanic groups. Oh, don’t forget the Manson family.
Today Los Angeles is where if you are White, you probably need to leave while you still can.
I could have told them your pictures are exactly what it would look like!!
The illegals drove me out of business by 1990 that my dad had started in 1936.