"I got it very, very wrong," he muses. "I thought everything would be stainless steel and sanitised and we'd all be walking around in brilliant white suits that never got dirty, and that there'd be no more disease or war."
Do you agree? Do you think Gerry got it wrong?
Gerry was completely correct! His Supermarionation vision especially was a Technology-centric utopia where Science was the benefactor of Mankind. The real world is a third-world hell-hole where Science & Technology have been harnessed to poison and enslave humanity. That’s why I continually rewatch Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and Joe 90. They depict a perfect universe, never to be. That is also why the Gerry & Sylvia Anderson vision will never die.
ReplyDeleteIt's always hard to assess visions of the future isn't it Zigg. You could argue that the Internet, Musk's SpaceX, virtual reality and the Mars Curiosity Rover are pure Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. I understand that there are even working jet packs now. Could Elon Musk be Geoff Tracy in the flesh?
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