In the 1970s, NASA sponsored a couple of projects looking at what space colonies may look like. They designed several version of colonies to house about 10,000 people. They then hired artists to render the designs.
I recently used these images as the theme for a deck looking at the state of marketing in 2015. NASA thought we would have space stations that would look like this by now. We haven't even been back to the moon since 1976.
“The physical and digital worlds are merging . . . Today’s assumptions of ownership, operational responsibilities and acceptable risk will no longer be valid.”
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Monica Basso, 2018: Digital Natives Grow Up and Rule the World, Gartner, July
28, 2008