#sovietutopia

Energy Sources The universe should have been colonized by the Soviet people. As late as the late 1960s, it was apparently still easier to imagine a mining facility on the moon (illustration from "The Milestones of the Space Epoch," 1967, by M. Vasiliev) than alternative sources of energy. #Sovietopia #SovietUtopia #empire #moon #future Picture is taken from: http://io9.gizmodo.com/how-soviet-artists-imagined-communist-life-in-space-1558140402

Sovietopia Half a Century Later So meta... just how you like it. This is a picture of "informational service," on how data has been and will be stored, transmitted, made accessible, and put into circulation; the account written by G. Babat (Бабат) "in the beginning of the third millennium" (in truth, in 1958); drawing by E. Borisova. "Already in the very beginning of the third millennium, any person, regardless whether he lived in a big city or in a barely-populated settlement, could plug in his receiving apparatus to the unified water-wave (волно-водной) informational network of the Earth globe and use all collected by the humanity information. The receiving apparatus is connected to the neighborhood base, where most frequently requested data was stored. The recipient calls a corresponding division or section of the neighborhood catalogue, finds the data he is interested in, and reads it on his screen, or listens through the loudspeaker." (P. 38, TM) I don't know if to laugh or cry, given that it is amazingly precise in some respects, and then given that the most daring hopes were spectacularly surpassed, but then also taking into consideration that I am reading this half-a-century-old journal requested by paper catalogue, in the greatest Russian library, the fourth-big, if we are to speak of the vastness of archival depositories, library in the world. #library #dream #Sovietopia #SovietUtopia #archives #future

Michurin and the New Worlds / Мичурин и новые миры #Sovietopia #SovietUtopia #Moscow

Создание человека / Creation of the Man #Kalinin #SovietUtopia #Sovietopia