Point taken. After all, it is advertising that was meant to appeal to the steel buyer of the 60's. My post was actually a reaction to a Flickr poster that wanted to dive in to the illustrations and live there which puzzles me. I find this kind of super-sanitized depiction of the future to be viscerally dystopian in the way that EPCOT is simultaneously exciting and terribly sad. I always wonder what one does all day in such a world.

If you find these images appealing, please note that the future is not only shiny, it is also white, buff and the women all look like strippers. There is no suffering or conflict because we will live in some typically solipsistic frat boy's wet dream. Count me out