Paleo-Future

"Imagineers said that when they were planning Tomorrowland, Walt would carry around books on city planning and mutter about traffic, no...

As promised , here is page 12 of the amazing 1979 book Future Cities: Homes and Living into the 21st Century . My favorite aspect of this p...

Paleo-Future reader artbot recently turned my attention to the monowheel , the awkward contraption featured on the 1932 Popular Science cov...

The AT&T "You Will" televison ads from 1993 are a great example of how the future was once sold to the public. While the user...

Examining the cover to the 1979 book Future Cities: Homes and Living into the 21st Century you can instantly feel its paleo-futuristic glow...

Walt Disney opens the Disneyland TV program Mars and Beyond by asking, "Will we find planets with only a low form of vegetable life or...

"Pressure suits will improve, say the space doctors, but not enough to permit their wearers to work freely in a vacuum for long periods...

Stuff From the Park has some great vintage Disneyland photos including the one pictured above of the Monorails traveling over Submarine Lag...

I came across a rather bizarre ad recently in the October 15, 1979 edition of Newsweek. It's for a company called Champion which now loo...

"'You will definitely see this returning to a more human scale society,' said Hazel Henderson, a freelance futurist, from her p...

As a robot designer for Short Circuit, concept artist for Tron, a production illustrator for the first Star Trek movie and a "visual fu...

Disney's 1937 animated short film, " Modern Inventions ," opens with Donald Duck entering a Museum of Modern Marvels . Emphasi...

The NASA Ames Research Center has more 1970s space colony artwork, some of which was featured last week in the post about Donald Davis .

CantikFotos has posted a color photo of the amazing Desolation Row in Taiwan. Like the view from Google Maps the new image adds another l...

"By 2000, the machines will be producing so much that everyone in the U.S. will, in effect, be independently wealthy. With Government ...

The Motorola television ads below ran in Life magazine and The Saturday Evening Post from 1961 until 1963. These, along with other print ads...

A friend of mine contends that jet packs were the Segways of the 20th century. They promised to change the way that people traveled but wer...

The September 5, 1968 New York Times had a book review titled, "The Fearless Futurist," about Amaury de Riencourt and his book, Th...

The world presented in the 1938 cartoon All's Fair at the Fair is one of automation and robots. We see the World's Fair through th...

I found the book Do You Remember Technology? at a used bookstore this weekend. It included this Science and Mechanics cover from the Decemb...

Agent Kay: "This is a fascinating little gadget. These are going to replace CDs soon. I guess I'll have to buy the White Album agai...

Didn't think it could get any weirder? Someone has found an audio recording of Hal Lindsey lecturing about the "End Times" co...

The EPCOT attraction Horizons was a great introduction into the world of paleo-futurism. The ride took you through past visions of the futu...

I recently found a New York Times article with the headline, "Machines, Machines! The Futurist's Cry!" from December 11, 1927....

CantikFotos has a great collection of photos from Taiwan of a housing development that was never completed. The set is called Desolation Ro...

"Nearly all experts agree that bacterial and viral diseases will have been virtually wiped out. Probably arteriosclerotic heart disease...

Donald Davis was commissioned to do paintings for NASA in the 1970s and is now offering them to the public domain. The "toroidal shape...

Fans of Disney's Epcot, (the theme park formerly known as EPCOT Center), seem to fall into three categories: 1. Angry 2. Bored 3. Nostal...