R E T R O F U T U R E . . . part 1

past predictions of the future are called RETROFUTURE ...  

they commonly showed a bright wonderful tomorrow,

  and always in the style of the illustrator's times
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a 1638 vision of the coming age of flight
              
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drawings and predictions by Albert Robida,  1883 ...

  in the future every home will have a private cinema

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an apparatus will help people breath while they sleep       see full size
              
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people will soon do things from their own home using the 'telephonoscope'
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Albert Robida,  1893       see full size

     
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1957 retrofuture

      
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in the Sanyo pavilion at the 1970 Worlds Fair,  Japan

       
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1907 future public transit
              
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a 1914 prediction of how people will look in 1950
              
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a 1930s toaster design by Brooks Stevens called the "Toastalator"
              
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a Bruce Bushman sketch for Disney,  1950s       see full size

    
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a 1944 future lawn mower
              
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1945 plastics would likely yellow and crack in the sun,  and smell of chemicals.

              
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1950   "New Worlds"
              
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1953 predicts 1973       see full size

              
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Dan Decarlo
              
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those 1950s people in that blue car are screaming ... the two men

and their wives sound like four women ... they are silenced by

THE PASSING THUNDER!!!       see full size
        
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a 1956 self-driving car
        
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1956 predicts 1958 will have floating fish factories
              
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1958 ... future classrooms will use computers       see full size
              
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1959 working models of office equipment by Parker Pens   
"The pen at left is solar-powered,  burning an impression
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a future supermarket,  1960s?       see full size
              
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1964
               
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a 1966 video-telephone

          
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a 1968 home by Verner Panton ... the main elements of late 1960s future are

 spheres,  the color white,  and lava-lamp shapes

              

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late 1960s bathroom shag carpeting would be wet and dirty . . . unless you're into that
              
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Lieutenant Uhura's quarters from 1960s television series 'Star Trek'

   

Retro-future 1       Retro-future 2 

    

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