I love mid-century futurism. While they did get many things wrong, that&#x27;s inevitable when you have big ideas and put them forward fearlessly. Whenever I read anything from that era in science, art, architecture, even philosophy, I am often struck by the boldness and fearlessness of it compared to the plodding baby-steps of today. Even today&#x27;s most &quot;radical&quot; ideas like transhumanism, etc., are really just meek little echoes of ideas from that era.<p>The bold often seem foolish in retrospect when compared to the intellectually timid, since the latter get to avoid being wrong by simply not doing much of anything.