This week’s #visionsofthefuture post is from Ultimo, an imaginative narration of life under the earth with projections by John Vassos and the text by Ruth Vassos. John Vassos was an artist and industrial designer, and these images chronicle a projected future of the earth – told in past tense – after an ice age forces humanity to bore into the earth’s crust and live underground. Humans survive, but they are ultimately forced to leave the planet and search for a new home. “Thousands of light years we will traverse—will my descendants complete the copy of this document I take with me?” Ultimo, an imaginative narration of life under the earth / with projections by John Vassos and the text by Ruth Vassos.New York : E.P. Dutton, 1930. NC1075 .V35
