Push-Button Education - May 25, 1958
"Teaching would be by means of sound movies and mechanical tabulating machines."
Wrist Watch TV - April 17, 1960
"TV sets the size of postage stamps will soon be worn on the wrist, each with a personal dialing number."
"Pogo" Police Car - May 4, 1958
"Here, for tomorrow, is the concept of policemen on mechanical pogo platforms ..."
Farm Automation - March 30, 1958
"A floating tower will oversee a swarm of robot implements and tractors operated by electronic command."
Gravity in Reverse - June 29, 1958
"Factory-made houses equipped with antigravity machinery could be floated above the ground - to catch the breezes!"
See also:
Word Origins: Imagineering (1947)
Ristos (1979)
Homework in the Future (1981)
Connections: AT&T's Vision of the Future (Part 7, 1993)
The Road Ahead: Future Classroom (1995)
Superfarm of the Year 2020 (1979)
3 comments:
I've admired Arthur Radebaugh's work for a long time now. Does anyone know where to get those monochrome posters of his art that were making the rounds a few years ago?
Take a look at the flying cars in the antigravity panel -- one on the ground, and one flying -- this predates the Jetsons by 5 years... convergent paleo-future evolution, or theft of intellectual property?
Why would I want a TV the size of a stamp? Screens got bigger in the future, not smaller. Then again, there is there are video playing iPods...
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