The art of... failing
Some of my favourite things on the planet are historical missteps, grand ideas based on future predictions that turned out to be wide of the mark. I’ve long been fascinated by retro visions of the future, architectural or design plans executed with blistering confidence, and dazzling wrongness, that today linger as monuments to our own misguidedness. An idea that boldly strode into the future, only to gaze over its shoulder and see society setting off on a different route.
And now, when the future
