Paleo-Future

The March 5, 1961 Chicago Tribune ran this Closer Than We Think! strip, showcasing the golf cart of the future. Hey, it can't all be st...

The 1966 radio documentary 2000 A.D.: A documentary on life in the universe in the 21st century , hosted by Chet Huntley , covers some very ...

Since my first post about the General Dynamic Astronautics Time Capsule of 1963, we've learned that it was likely crushed when the buil...

The 1966 book Automobiles of the Future by Irwin Stambler contains some pretty awesome projections of what we were supposed to be driving b...

Terry R. Hiller wrote an article titled "Going Shopping in the 1990s" for the December, 1983 issue of The Futurist magazine. Mr....

The diverse and informative Disney blog, 2719 Hyperion has a very interesting post about the publicity materials sent out prior to EPCOT...

The booklet 2063 A.D. , published by General Dynamics Astronautics, was placed into a time capsule in July of 1963. It contains predictions ...

The 1982 book Our Future Needs (World of Tomorrow) contains this two-page spread of robot farms of the future. No, they don't grow robo...

After recently reading about how devoid the paleo-future is of advertising I thought it'd be a good time to pull out a cartoon Harry Gr...

The 1960's TV show The Jetsons taught an entire generation what to expect of the future. Using comedy to create fanciful expectations of...

Paleo-Future reader Mark Plus sent me a very interesting piece from the June 1981 issue of Future Life magazine. The author, F.M. Esfandiar...

A common fear of the future is that life will become much too hectic. This idea is commonly portrayed in cartoons such as the one above, whi...

The 1979 book Toward Distant Suns features the "Space Spiders," illustrated below. Space Spiders are designed to help build the s...

Of all the contributions to the February 12, 1923 Bridgeport Telegram article Thinking Men and Women Predict Problems of World Century Hence...

The 1979 book Future Cities: Homes and Living into the 21st Century goes into some detail about how the " risto " may be used in ...

The photos and excerpts below are featured in the book Fifties Source Book and highlight the Kitchen of the Future built for the 1956 Daily...

From October 11 until December 27, 1900 the New York Observer ran a series of eight letters by a man named Augustus. He was reporting from ...

In the futuristic world of 2015 you'll "hydrate" Pizza Hut pizzas with your Black & Decker Hydrator. This clip , from the ...

The August 10, 1912 Chicago Defender contained this blurb about journalism of the future. "What's your idea of the future journal?...

The book Walt Disney's America by Christopher Finch contains a 1966 quote from Walt Disney which sums up why the (1997) redesign of Tom...

What happens when you take three summer courses at once? You go a little crazy and start making LOLfutures. If you're not familiar with ...

It is a fitting day to look at Paul Ehrlich's third and final scenario of agri-apocalypse from his 1968 book, The Population Bomb . Toda...

The last two pages of the official souvenir program for the 1962 Seattle World's Fair contained this ad from Frederick & Nelson, pr...

Mary Garrett Bay, Chairman (yes, it read "Chairman") of the New York City League of Women Voters wrote a short piece in the Februa...

Over at Moller International they take the idea of a flying car very seriously. Moller's June 28, 2007 press release announced the st...

A few months ago we looked at the first part of fourteen-year-old Arthur Palm's predictions for the year 2001 . Arthur was writing for h...

Back by popular demand , we have a whole new batch of paleo-futuristic wallpapers. We even have a size for those of you who can't be bot...

Sometimes ideas of the paleo-future not only elicit a chuckle for their scientific improbability but, in the case of "Polar Oil Wells,...