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Remnants of Expo 67, 50 Years Later

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday May 03 2017, @04:41AM   Printer-friendly
from the how-time-flies dept.

butthurt writes:

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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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday May 03 2017, @05:05AM (4 children)

    by kaszz (4211) on Wednesday May 03 2017, @05:05AM (#503483) Journal

    They missed the computer revolution? And thus the predicted future did go another path..

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @05:09AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @05:09AM (#503486)

    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)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @05:28AM (#503489)

      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

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @05:48AM (#503500)

        Fuck it. We'll just stay here until we die and rot.

        Mod me up. Mod me down. I don't care. Look over here, I'm doing stuff!

        Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

      • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday May 03 2017, @03:37PM

        by kaszz (4211) on Wednesday May 03 2017, @03:37PM (#503700) Journal

        Considering nuclear war, bug mutations and complete unpreparedness for NEO. We may not last long on this planet.