The CBC has an article about the surviving works of art and architecture from Expo 67, which opened 27 April 1967.
Expo 67 may have opened a half century ago today, but it's 2017 that seems kind of old by comparison.
The art and architectural legacy of Montreal's 1967 International and Universal Exhibition — few, but impressive — litter Canada's landscape like the ruins of a fantastical future to which we somehow, somewhere lost the thread.
Found as far away as Newfoundland, Expo 67's remnants continue to exude some of the weird, wondrous magic of that Summer of Love in Montreal, when anything and everything seemed possible
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Remnants of Expo 67, 50 Years Later
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(Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday May 03 2017, @05:05AM (4 children)
They missed the computer revolution? And thus the predicted future did go another path..
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @05:09AM (3 children)
If not for the time wasting distraction of the internet, we would have colonies on Mars by now.
Instead the greatest minds of the past 50 years are working on maximizing "likes" and delivering clickbait.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @05:28AM (2 children)
Who says we need Mars colonies? Are you rich enough to live in a Mars colony with no homeless and beggars?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @05:48AM
Fuck it. We'll just stay here until we die and rot.
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(Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday May 03 2017, @03:37PM
Considering nuclear war, bug mutations and complete unpreparedness for NEO. We may not last long on this planet.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Wednesday May 03 2017, @05:39AM (1 child)
every world expo seems to have a huge amount of optimism, which always points to a better future that doesn't quite happen.
Sometimes, the left-over buildings add to the place they were built, eg: Brisbane got some nicely upgraded industrial riverbank: http://www.visitsouthbank.com.au/ [visitsouthbank.com.au]
Otherwise, you get water in the desert: http://www.expo2020dubai.ae/en/legacy [expo2020dubai.ae]
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @06:01AM
Optimism is for cretins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @11:45AM (2 children)
This youtube video shows what Expo 67 looked like.
https://youtu.be/r6qMHa_0FUI [youtu.be]
Takeaways..seems things were richer than versus now in North America...
oh..and everyone was much thinner then too.. no morbid obesity to be found (High Fructose Corn Syrup hadn't been invented yet?)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @12:49PM
oh..and everyone was much thinner then too.. no morbid obesity to be found
It's hard to be fat when you're a starving artist, eh?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @02:58PM
Maple syrup. Cures what ails you.
(Score: 3, Informative) by theluggage on Wednesday May 03 2017, @12:04PM (1 child)
like the ruins of a fantastical future to which we somehow, somewhere lost the thread.
Really? I don't see anything there that you wouldn't see in any high-profile commercial/public building project or public artwork of the last 25 years or so.
Or in some 1960s high-rise concrete social housing project, once celebrated by architects as a dynamic neo-brutalist deconstruction of space and light, now glimpsed over the shoulders of cheering former residents as it is finally blown up. Or, for that matter, on the shortlist for the annual Carbuncle Cup [bdonline.co.uk] award.
I assume that, inside, they all feature the same dynamic, exciting buckets catching the bold, challenging drips from the visionary, dramatic... but, above all, leaky roof. (Actually, in the award* winning building where I work we have big sponges instead of buckets)
* No, an actual award, not the Carbuncle Cup, although I would be able to see a former Carbuncle finalist from the window... if I had an outdoors-facing window.
(Score: 2) by tibman on Wednesday May 03 2017, @05:29PM
I was thinking something similar. Not that the fantastic future didn't happen as it should have. But that the fantastic future was realized to be just fantasy.
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(Score: 2) by r1348 on Wednesday May 03 2017, @09:06PM
It looks better than what's left of Expo 2015, believe me.