With Obama's historic victory in November, I began to dream of a new order — of acres of new wind turbines silently generating clean energy, of
sleek bullet trains seamlessly linking our great metropolises, and of a modernized tax system under which the rich would finally pay their fair share.
I Have Seen the Future Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin If you've traveled on a
bullet train, perched on a swooping modernist sofa, or made a martini in a
sleek cocktail shaker, welcome to the future — just as Norman Bel Geddes imagined it.