Paleo-Future

Part 3 of the Sun Microsystems video Starfire begins with our protagonist spying on the office receptionist. From there, we take a look at...

I wrote an article for the online magazine MungBeing which appears in the new issue. An excerpt appears below. You can read the entire arti...

Today we have the thrilling conclusion to the September 13, 1959 Chicago Tribune article, "Call a Service Man: This Cry Will Still Be H...

Don't you hate it when countries use pterodactyls in war? The 1981 book Future War and Weapons (World of Tomorrow) by Neil Ardley descr...

The June 27, 1909 Galveston Daily News (Galveston, Texas) ran an article titled, "The Electric City of the Future." Below is an ex...

Part 2 of the 1994 Sun Microsystems video Starfire contains remote manipulation of a camera via tablet. Pretty sweet. See also: Starfire (...

The August 7, 1923 Oxnard Daily Courier (Oxnard, California) ran a story titled "Shaw Wants To Be Robot, Part Time." Below is the ...

The 1979 book Spacewreck: Ghostships and Derelicts of Space by Stewart Cowley explores the "history" of spacecrafts and their dem...

The August 25, 1955 Nevada State Journal (Reno, Nevada) ran a story titled, "Television-Phone Unveiled But Caution Warned on Use."...

With the annoucement of Microsoft Surface it seems like a great time to reflect on similar technologies projected in 1994 for the year 2004...

In the future, kids will be so dumb that they'll forget the year (and spooky music will swell on cue). How does the computer know every...

It saddens me greatly to read about films that are forever lost to deterioration. The 1984 book Yesterday's Tomorrows by Joseph J. Corn...

This Closer Than We Think! strip ran in the December 25, 1960 Chicago Tribune. Chistmas cards of the future may be transmitted electronical...

Below is film of the moving sidewalk featured at the Paris Exposition of 1900 . The film is credited to Thomas Edison. The New York Observe...

Are the switchboard girls listening in on your calls? Get the Wireless Telephone! This story ran in the February 20, 1910 Washington Post (W...

The image above is from an insert in the Walt Disney Treasures - Tomorrowland: Disney in Space and Beyond DVD set. The image was used in Di...

The March 3, 1949 Austin Statesman (Austin, Texas) ran the picture above, declaring that the people of Nice, France believe robots will be k...

A number of major news outlets got burned in 2002 on a fake story about blondes going extinct . The idea that blondes will soon be non-exist...

Of all the paleo-futuristic concept videos we've looked at in the past four months, the future depicted in Grey Flannel Navigator may h...

The evening edition of the December 5, 1924 State Journal (Lincoln, Nebraska) ran a short article about Henry Ford's automated vision fo...

The 1982 book Fact or Fantasy? (World of Tomorrow) by Neil Ardley features this picture of "time tourists" choosing their destina...

Part 3 of Apple's 1988 paleo-future concept video Grey Flannel Navigator gives us much needed closure about that business plan. See al...

The 1979 book Wasn't the Future Wonderful? features the above two-page spread of Jack Dempsey challenging a robot. Unfortunately, the ...

Arthur Radebaugh's Closer Than We Think! strip for the May 21, 1961 Chicago Tribune envisioned a Monoline Express of the future. Below ...

Today we have part 2 of Apple's 1988 paleo-futuristic concept video, Grey Flannel Navigator . Stay tuned for the thrilling conclusion. ...

The June 10, 1958 edition of the Chicago Daily Tribune ran an article about predictions for Chicagoland and the world. The predictions were ...

The Flickr group Wasn't the Future Wonderful? has some great examples of postmodern paleo-future art. These pieces co-opt and remix pa...

The video above is part 1 of Apple's futuristic concept video Grey Flannel Navigator . It was produced in 1988 and has a tone similar t...