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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1953 predicts 1973 see full size
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those 1950s people in that blue car are screaming ... the two men
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a 1956 self-driving car
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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
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"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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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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