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Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war.

Plastics, as a material, are very nasty, but as an alternative to, let's say, a brick, which seems really natural, they start to look pretty good. They're very low energy to produce, very lightweight to transport and construct. That's why they're so popular.

A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But it's some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.

As sustainability becomes more and more of a concern, we're going to see more plastics.

Everything's plastic, we're all gonna die.

The future, like everything else, is not what it used to be.

I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.

If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic.

We've gone from, in the '50s and '60s, being very optimistic about the future, where the future is all spaceships and The Jetsons and flying cars, to where we were just sure the future was going to be a massive pile of rubble.