Paleo-Future

This 1923 prediction in the February 12 Bridgeport Telegram (Bridgeport, Connecticut) was written by William H. Anderson, New York Superinte...

The 1930 film Just Imagine depicts the futuristic world of 1980. With flying cars, food pills, and a totalitarian government the world is o...

As I've argued before 1997 can be seen as the year that postmodern paleo-futurism went mainstream. Disney's self-aware redesign of...

The filmstrip Man and the Moon depicts moon colonization as something just around the corner. A video clip of the filmstrip is below and c...

Winifred G. Hedenberg laments the brutality of WWI in the February 12, 1923 Bridgeport Telegram (Bridgeport, Connecticut) article " Thi...

This fanciful flying machine was used to sell Pears' Soap in the July, 1906 issue of the Atlantic Monthly Advertiser. This image can be ...

Hacking the brain hasn't caught on in consumer products quite yet, but we can see that it's always been right around the corner. Th...

This painting by Harry Grant Dart is one of my favorite images of the paleo-future. According to the Library of Congress it was used as th...

Author and critic Henry L. Mencken makes some pretty bold predictions in the February 12, 1923 article, " Thinking Men and Women Predi...

Steve over at Finkbuilt sent me a link to this great image of a couple buying a house in the (paleo)future. The publication appears to be ...

The advertisement below ran in the Official Souvenir Program for the 1962 Seattle World's Fair. The ad proclaims that General Motors is...

Today's section of the February 12, 1923 article, " Thinking Men and Women Predict Problems of World Century Hence ," was writ...

Today we have the 1994 Sun Microsystems concept video Starfire in its entirety. You can still access individual clips of the program from t...

This 1909 illustration of New London in the future can be found in the Library of Congress collection.

The second part of the February 12, 1923 article, " Thinking Men and Women Predict Problems of World Century Hence ," focuses on m...

The Seattle World's Fair of 1962 brought us Seattle's most iconic structure, the Space Needle . Also known as the Century 21 Exposit...

The 1982 book Fact or Fantasy (World of Tomorrow) by Neil Ardley contains the two-page spread below which illustrates domed cities of the f...

Edison's film from the 1900 Paris Exposition is amazing, but it leaves you wondering how that moving sidewalk ....well, moves. Wonder n...

As promised , we have the first in a long list of predictions found in the February 12, 1923 Bridgeport Telegram (Bridgeport, Connecticut). ...

This 1957 photo of the Monsanto House of the Future can be found in the Library of Congress collection. See also: Monsanto House of the Fu...

A few blogs mentioned that they liked " Going to the Opera in the Year 2000 " so much that they were using it as their desktop wa...

This 1920 cartoon of future plane travel can be found in the Library of Congress collection.

The Disneyland TV show episode Man and the Moon originally aired December 28, 1955 and was released theatrically outside the United States....

This photo of a "futuristic phone booth" from 1958 can be found in the Library of Congress collection. See also: Outer Space Furn...

Many people of the early twentieth century held magical beliefs about electricity. This ad in the April 24, 1903 Manitoba Morning Free Press...

Apparently the ability to throw away your clothes is worthy of more attention than the commuter helicopters everyone's flying around in...

As I've asserted before, Future Shock is probably the strangest motion picture ever to claim the genre of documentary. While not altog...

I guess " Where's my Jetpack? " can no longer be the battle cry of the paleo-futurism movement. Mexican start-up Tecnologia Ae...