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Future Shock

The Amish Taxi - The combo pack of historic futuristc preservation that historicizes the future in order to avoid future shock.

 

"Dissectibility takes those ideas we favor, cut away those we dislike and project forward the new combinations." Charles Jencks, p 32

 

“That makes perfect sense because clearly the whole idea of modernization raises either latently or overtly the issue of what to keep” Rem Koolhaas

 

“It misses a critical difference between the men of the past or present and the men of the future. This difference is summed up in the word ‘transience’.” Alvin Toffler, p. 42

 

“No matter how fast we go, no matter how cleverly we schedule, there are never enough hours in the day.” Carl Honore, p. 20

 

“No body of knowledge can inspire anybody to do anything if its own guardian should lose their dynamic.” Reyner Banham, p. 257

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Uploaded on November 16, 2005
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