Paleo-Future

The July 31, 1970 Honolulu Advertiser ran an article by Jane Evinger about Hawaii becoming a destination for education rather than just recr...

This "car-on-train pallet system" is featured in the 1968 book Transportation in the World of the Future .

Part 3 of the US West concept video Flowers by Alice shows the amazing graphics capabilities of their portable, talking computer. Those fl...

Flickr user ninecormorants has a great collection of amateur photos from the 1964/65 New York World's Fair. See also: Transportation E...

The November 24, 1975 Middlesboro Daily News (Middlesboro, Kentucky) ran an editorial countering the "catastrophe theory" predicti...

This 1965 concept sketch depicts a hypothetical New Tomorrowland in Disneyland. The drawing is featured in the book Designing Disney's T...

The 1966 book Automobiles of the Future features these images of General Motor's Runabout concept car. Besides having three wheels it a...

This concept drawing by Buckminster Fuller looks to have a lot in common with the airport of the future article we looked at last week. The...

The May 15, 1957 Chicago Tribune ran a piece titled, "Tell Future of Fashions in Exhibit." The story described the apparel on dis...

Part 2 of the US West concept video Flowers by Alice features the business tools of the future. Voice recognition technology seemed to be ...

From the 1977 book Rocketship: An Incredible Journey Through Science Fiction and Science Fact : Paul Maiwurm's fanciful Cyclonic Rocket ...

This image appears in the 1979 book Future Cities: Homes and Living into the 21st Century and illustrates the living room of the (paleo)fut...

Since I was stuck at Chicago's O'Hare Airport all day, here's an article from the December 1, 1967 European edition of Stars and...

The 1992 US West concept video Flowers by Alice features themes and products similar to that of Accenture's Vision and AT&T's ...

Oglethorpe University in Atlanta has a very interesting list from the International Time Capsule Society which describes the 10 most wante...

The August 3, 1958 Chicago Tribune ran this Closer Than We Think! strip, demostrating the automatic highway construction of the future. Som...

This image appears in the 1979 book Future Cities: Homes and Living into the 21st Century and describes the 3D copier of the future. See al...

The 1949 book Television: Medium of the Future by Maurice Gorham correctly identifies, but dismisses, a concern about the visual age: votin...

The April, 1978 issue of The Futurist magazine ran an incredibly forward-thinking piece about the future of newspapers. If we think of a ne...

Remember those people you used to talk to before the Internet was invented? I think there was a name for them . . . oh yeah, family and fri...

Clip 3 from the 1993 concept video Vision , produced by Andersen Consulting, shows us what the portable communications device of the future...

The Summer 2007 issue of The Wilson Quarterly contains a small blurb about paleo-futurism. You may even recognize the name of a certain pal...

This interview from the 1966 radio documentary 2000 A.D. asks William Roman, chairman of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authorit...

This illustration is from a beautiful 1981 edition of the 1883 Albert Robida book Le vingtième siècle. La vie électrique . The edition I...

The 1972 book Futures Conditional contains essays and lists from many different futurists of the era. This list of headlines of the near fu...

This clip from the May 14, 1958 Disneyland TV episode, " Magic Highway, U.S.A. " depicts the high-speed freightways of the future...

The August, 1976 issue of The Futurist magazine ran this blurb about the need for humanized machines, which would make technology less inti...

This Ford concept car appears in the 1966 book Automobiles of the Future by Irwin Stambler. The description of the car appears below. Exoti...