Paleo-Future

Part two of the September 13, 1959 Chicago Tribune article Call a Serviceman: This Cry Will Still Be Heard in Year 2000 offers more paleo-f...

As promised , today we have a highlight from the 2020 Olympic Games; the lunar high jump. These Games will, of course, take place on the moo...

While this image of the 1954 "computer of the future" is a hoax that still manages to pop up whenever the topic turns to paleo-fu...

If you look to the sidebar you'll see that I've included a link to a new forum on Google Groups dedicated to Paleo-Future. This for...

Rather than a floating city , today we have an image of undersea cities from the book Out of Time: Designs for the Twentieth-Century Future...

There are no language barriers in the paleo-future. In 1993 AT&T produced a fourteen minute video called Connections: AT&T's Vis...

10 Zen Monkeys has a great article about the paleo-futuristic promise of Virtual Reality. As the article points out, we may have things lik...

The caption to this photo reads, "Fusion energy may someday power spacecraft on journeys beyond the solar system, but its first uses wi...

In his 1968 book Criswell Predicts "psychic" Jeron Criswell persuaded with impeccable logic. Because no prophets have mentioned ...

Paleo-Future reader Mr. Wallace recently inquired about an advertisement he came across many years ago that asked people to send in their i...

While browsing the Chicago Tribune archives this past weekend I came across this feature from May 4, 1952. It highlights fashion designs fro...

[Update: The Paleo-Future blog has moved. You can read and comment on this entry here .] Today we have a follow-up to Monday's post ab...

The image above is a TWA advertisement from 1963. The ad features some great paleo-future design and can be found in the book The Golden Age...

Wernher von Braun begins the film Challenge of Outer Space by saying, "The conquest of outer space is the greatest technological chall...

In 1987 Apple Computer produced a concept video for a hypothetical product called the Knowledge Navigator . Having a normal conversation wi...

The image above is the "home of the future" where "electrically operated climate-conditioned extensions will permit 'summ...

The April 30, 1899 Chicago Tribune article, "Population Close to 'Standing Room Only'" seems like it could be written toda...

While paging through the EPCOT Center Book: The Future World of Energy , published in 1984, I noticed that even images demonstrating positi...

In the year 1901 Arthur Palm, a fourteen-year-old student from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, published an article in his school newspaper (the Excel...

In a way, Seattle has a permanent piece of the paleo-future. The always amazing blog BibliOdyssey has a great post titled Century 21 Exposi...

For those of you who can't get enough of the book Future Cities: Homes and Living into the 21st Century , here are the Olympic Games of ...

In case a flyer wasn't clear enough, the House of Yahweh posted video of their September 12, 2006 nuclear war prophecy. "Prophec...

As a follow-up to yesterday's post about the postmodern paleo-future here's an excerpt from the March 14, 1982 New York Times arti...

Now that we've seen what the classroom of the future and the home of the future look like, let's take a look at police investigati...

This 1977 illustration by Rick Guidice is from the book Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future . "Scientists h...

Lately, I've been trying to organize my thoughts around this idea of the postmodern paleo-future. That is to say, when did a certain lev...

You have to admire a man with the " cahones " to put a date on his prophecies even if that means becoming a laughingstock. Excerpt...

Today we have more from the great book Future Cities: Homes and Living into the 21st Century . The Sea City 2000 shows some great paleo-fut...