Comments on: Metaphors: socially useless supervillians and the Titanic, yet again http://nbergus.com/2009/10/metaphors-socially-useless-supervillians-and-the-titanic-yet-again/ Thoughts on what media do, and can do better, and other things Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:02:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Greg Hollingsworth http://nbergus.com/2009/10/metaphors-socially-useless-supervillians-and-the-titanic-yet-again/comment-page-1/#comment-86 Greg Hollingsworth Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:28:53 +0000 http://nbergus.com/?p=606#comment-86 The Titanic fallacy is interesting, however, it's implication that airplanes made boats obsolete is inaccurate. As a main mode of transoceanic travel perhaps, but we still have major cruiselines, massive transoceanic shipping and plenty of other things.<br><br>The Titanic's sister ship Olympic served throughout WW1 as a troop transport and hospital ship, it is likely that had the Titanic (or the Britannic for that matter) survived their Trans-Atlantic trips, they would have served similar purposes.<br><br>The plane may have jeopardized the future of the boating industry for passenger transit, but it took quite a while before the passenger airline became an affordable reality. The Titanic fallacy is interesting, however, it's implication that airplanes made boats obsolete is inaccurate. As a main mode of transoceanic travel perhaps, but we still have major cruiselines, massive transoceanic shipping and plenty of other things.

The Titanic's sister ship Olympic served throughout WW1 as a troop transport and hospital ship, it is likely that had the Titanic (or the Britannic for that matter) survived their Trans-Atlantic trips, they would have served similar purposes.

The plane may have jeopardized the future of the boating industry for passenger transit, but it took quite a while before the passenger airline became an affordable reality.

]]> By: Greg Hollingsworth http://nbergus.com/2009/10/metaphors-socially-useless-supervillians-and-the-titanic-yet-again/comment-page-1/#comment-80 Greg Hollingsworth Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:28:53 +0000 http://nbergus.com/?p=606#comment-80 The Titanic fallacy is interesting, however, it's implication that airplanes made boats obsolete is inaccurate. As a main mode of transoceanic travel perhaps, but we still have major cruiselines, massive transoceanic shipping and plenty of other things.<br><br>The Titanic's sister ship Olympic served throughout WW1 as a troop transport and hospital ship, it is likely that had the Titanic (or the Britannic for that matter) survived their Trans-Atlantic trips, they would have served similar purposes.<br><br>The plane may have jeopardized the future of the boating industry for passenger transit, but it took quite a while before the passenger airline became an affordable reality. The Titanic fallacy is interesting, however, it's implication that airplanes made boats obsolete is inaccurate. As a main mode of transoceanic travel perhaps, but we still have major cruiselines, massive transoceanic shipping and plenty of other things.

The Titanic's sister ship Olympic served throughout WW1 as a troop transport and hospital ship, it is likely that had the Titanic (or the Britannic for that matter) survived their Trans-Atlantic trips, they would have served similar purposes.

The plane may have jeopardized the future of the boating industry for passenger transit, but it took quite a while before the passenger airline became an affordable reality.

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