Comments on Paleo-Future: Moving Sidewalk (1900)

Well, they're in airports.

2009-01-09T01:09:00.000-05:00

Well, they're in airports.

moving sidewalks have been possible since 1900, an...

2008-10-22T17:59:00.000-04:00

moving sidewalks have been possible since 1900, and they're still not widespread? Yeah, that'll never happen, if its taking so long.

Fascinating. I found this post by googling after s...

2008-07-30T00:01:00.000-04:00

Fascinating. I found this post by googling after seeing a still of it from the Brooklyn Museum's photostream on Flickr Commons.

Interesting observation, commenter Richard, about media awareness. Kids will be kids (and the adults appear to be hamming it up, too), even if they aren't in a media-saturated world (yet).

Seeing things like this just makes me wonder what would happen if we could go back in time, jump on that sidewalk and show someone an iPod. Bet they'd freak out.

fantastic piece of film, I really enjoyed that, al...

2008-04-17T21:03:00.000-04:00

fantastic piece of film, I really enjoyed that, all the ladies and Gentlemen raising there hats.

On the other hand, why a moving sidewalk is beyond me. :)

Plus one lady saw the motion photograph box and was shy and walked away, aha. Amazing. Loving the history :)

I think it was Arthur C. Clarke in his non-fiction...

2007-12-21T11:48:00.000-05:00

I think it was Arthur C. Clarke in his non-fiction book Profiles of the Future that mentions moving sidewalks but made of some sort of anisotropic material that could flow in the direction of travel but hold the weight of a person.

The fluid would have the advantage of offering a continuous gradient of speed from the edge to edge so there would be no jumps, simply moving from side to side would change speed.

The problem would be to keep your feet together as one would go faster than the other or, if standing sideways, you would spin.

Notice...nobody in the film is obese.

2007-09-18T21:49:00.000-04:00

Notice...nobody in the film is obese.

I wonder how much of the technology used (for the ...

2007-06-11T05:31:00.000-04:00

I wonder how much of the technology used (for the filming) was inspired by (or stolen from) Nikola Tesla?

FirstWhen the Sleeper Wakes, by H.G. Wells. Publis...

2007-06-05T15:56:00.000-04:00

First

When the Sleeper Wakes, by H.G. Wells.
Published in 1899

Then

The Roads Must Roll, by Robert Heinlein.
Published by Astounding Science Fiction in 1940

And Finally

The Caves of Steel (1954) and its sequels in the Robot Series, by Isaac Asimov

Interesting that they did it as a circular layout....

2007-05-30T11:50:00.000-04:00

Interesting that they did it as a circular layout. This allowed them to make the railings also move with the high-speed track. though why they couldn't have left the railings stationary is beyond me. :)

Isaac Asimov postulated exactly this approach - se...

2007-05-30T11:05:00.000-04:00

Isaac Asimov postulated exactly this approach - several nested moving walks going at different speedds in one of his Foundation novels - can't remember which one...I thought he was being original - evidently not!

Ya sé! te preguntas...quien es Frank?yo tampoco.pe...

2007-05-29T21:19:00.000-04:00

Ya sé!
te preguntas...quien es Frank?

yo tampoco.

pero si acaso ...

http://quesapafrank.blogspot.com/

La Producción.

Funny to see that little kids were just as obnoxio...

2007-05-29T20:41:00.000-04:00

Funny to see that little kids were just as obnoxious in front of a camera back then as they are now. Kind of odd considering they didn't have nearly the same "media awareness" as kids do today.

The roads must Roll

2007-05-29T16:24:00.000-04:00

The roads must Roll