{"id":1333,"date":"2007-01-25T00:28:59","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T00:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=1333"},"modified":"2008-07-18T17:37:08","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T16:37:08","slug":"the-world-in-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/01\/25\/the-world-in-2030\/","title":{"rendered":"The World in 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fulltable.com\/VTS\/f\/fut\/t.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/2030.jpg\" id=\"image1332\" alt=\"2030.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The incomparable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fulltable.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Culture Archive<\/a> presents an embarrassment of riches in scanned form; if only there were more sites as good as this. Easier for you to go and look for yourself than waste time reading a poor description of the place.<\/p>\n<p>Random browsing turned up pages from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fulltable.com\/VTS\/f\/fut\/t.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Earl of Birkenhead&#8217;s study<\/a> of the state of the world a century from 1930. But it&#8217;s not the Earl&#8217;s prognostications that concern us here, rather the book&#8217;s airbrush illustrations by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aiga.org\/content.cfm?contentalias=emcknightkauffer\" target=\"_blank\">E McKnight Kauffer<\/a>, an artist and designer better known for his Art Deco poster designs like <em>Metropolis<\/em> (1926) below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moma.org\/collection\/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A3020&amp;page_number=1&amp;template_id=1&amp;sort_order=1\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/kauffer.jpg\" id=\"image1334\" alt=\"kauffer.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/01\/07\/metropolis-posters\/\">Metropolis posters<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/02\/15\/frank-lloyd-wrights-future-city\/\">Frank Lloyd Wright\u2019s future city<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The incomparable Culture Archive presents an embarrassment of riches in scanned form; if only there were more sites as good as this. Easier for you to go and look for yourself than waste time reading a poor description of the place. Random browsing turned up pages from the Earl of Birkenhead&#8217;s study of the state &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2007\/01\/25\/the-world-in-2030\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The World in 2030&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,4,20],"tags":[277,2464],"class_list":["post-1333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-design","category-science-fiction","tag-art-deco","tag-frank-lloyd-wright"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-lv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}