A Glimpse of the 23rd Century

It looks like a miniature set for a science fiction movie, but it's probably just a high class, high rise hotel with impressive elevators.

In fact, I think it's the Hyatt Hotel in San Francisco.

Bonus - The British Navy Resisted a Decent Lightning Rod for Decades
 

This Is The Future

 

... as we envisaged it in the past.

Oh, a clean world of elevators and concrete and steel.

Simultaneously better and worse that what we actually ended up with.

Bonus - Honesty