Time for something nice to look at, so here are some photos and artwork of what the year 2000 might have looked like from earlier decades…
land
Red Banner Textile Factory, St Petersburg, by Eric Mendelssohn (source: Lost Vanguard: Soviet Modernist Architecture 1922-32, Richard Pare)
Park Synagogue, Cleveland Heights, by Eric Mendelssohn
The De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, East Sussex
Palacio de los Deportes, Mexico City, by Félix Candela
Centrosoyuz Building, Moscow, by Le Corbusier (source: Lost Vanguard: Soviet Modernist Architecture 1922-32, Richard Pare)
People's Commissariat for Heavy Industry (proposed): I Fomin, P Abrosimov, M Minkus 1934
water
Jules Underwater Lodge (source: http://www.jul.com)
The Ben Franklin cutaway from Popular Science (source: http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov)
air
Republic XF-12 Rainbow
Convair NB-36, which carried a nuclear reactor
Saro Duchess, a jet-powered version of the Princess
North American XB-70 Valkyrie
North American XF-108 Rapier
Hawker P.1103 (source: http://rp-one.net)
space
The US military's Manned Orbiting Laboratory
An early Shuttle proposal
Space Station Freedom, circa 1985
It Doesn't Have To Be Right... 
October 2, 2011 at 12:47 pm
The last picture is pretty much how the manned portion of the current ISS looked in the mid 2000s