Comments by "Helium Road" (@RCAvhstape) on "Stewart Hicks" channel.

  1. Linear cities as dystopias are featured in cyberpunk works such as the William Gibson's "Sprawl" and Judge Dredd's Mega City One, both of which are speculative future versions of the US Northeast Corridor, the line of cities from Boston, Massachusetts down to Richmond, Virginia, all merged into one giant urbanized mass running north to south with no remaining rural areas in between.
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  2. In Robert Heinlein's fictional future the "road town" featured prominently. His version of the road town was literally a moving roadway with buildings on it that rolled along in a continuous loop. Think of those moving walkways you see in airports, but imagine it the size of an interstate highway, rolling along with clusters of buildings on it. It was a ridiculous concept but it made for interesting reading.
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  3.  @pikachuchujelly7628  I love Heinlein's hard sci fi but I don't know what he was thinking with that one.
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  4. They do seem like cool buildings. So if this was so successful, why don't we see dozens of these things in every city in North America?
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  5.  @eddydeathwishe4638  How does that make you feel?
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  6.  @olieboer  Snow Crash is one of my favorites.
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  7.  @eddydeathwishe4638  Well, the Sprawl trilogy hasn't been made into a movie yet, and Judge Dredd was a comic book character long before any movies were made, so nothing I mentioned in my initial post comes from any movie.
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  8. Isler may not be a "real architect", but his stuff is way better-looking than that awful thing Gaudi built. Convince me otherwise.
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  9.  @MikeAG333  Lots of people used to watch Jerry Springer every day, too.
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  10.  @MikeAG333  I never put you down for liking Gaudi, so spare me the condescension. We all like what we like. To me, his stuff is awful.
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  11.  @MikeAG333  What is your problem?
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  12. All planned cities are "fake" or at least start out that way. The City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia, Spain, for example, is "real" because it exists and the buildings are all used by the public, but it's also "fake" because it is deliberately set up to look futuristic as opposed to just naturally evolving to look the way it does.
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  13. THE STAPLER WAS RED NOT ORANGE!
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