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

     
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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       click twice

    
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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!!!    click twice
        
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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    click twice
              
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1959 working models of office equipment by Parker Pens   
"The pen at left is solar-powered,  burning an impression
 onto the paper with an electric arc."     click twice
              
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a future supermarket,  1960s?     click twice
              
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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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