A Visitor from the Twentieth Century story
A contemporary architect wakes up in a future New York City - or was it only a dream?
6 total · 3 major · 3 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| post-scarcity economy utopia | major | Future New York City was made a hydroelectrically powered utopia complete with gigantic buildings that comfortably fit 10,000 people, moving sidewalks, and people tubes for transport. |
| time travel | major | Markham was apparently brought to future New York City for fun by some researchers there, but at the end of the story the possibility that his experience was just a dream was raised. |
| what if I found myself in the future | major | Markham was apparently brought to future New York City for fun by some researchers there, but at the end of the story the possibility that his experience was just a dream was raised. |
| depletion of a vital natural resource | minor | Markham was told of how oil reserves dried up by the year 1975, which led to the auto industry crashing, leaving the United States in a state of chaos for over a month. |
| natural resource sustainability | minor | Markham was told of how oil reserves dried up by the year 1975, which led to the auto industry crashing, leaving the United States in a state of chaos for over a month. |
| people tubes | minor | Future New York City people got around their metropolis by traveling in penumatic tubes |