Paleo-Future

Without further ado, the third and final part of the 1987 concept video, Classroom of the Future . See also: Classroom of the Future (Part ...

The August 3, 1970 issue of Time magazine profiles Alvin Toffler and his book Future Shock . An excerpt appears below but you can read the ...

Part 2 of the 1987 concept video Classroom of the Future is fairly accurate in depicting what the Internet would eventually allow people t...

Today's New York Times has a very interesting piece about the effect of the Space Age on popular culture. An effect was much more than...

This image ran in a supplement to the December 29, 1900 Minneapolis Journal called The Journal Junior . The caption reads, "A look to ...

Reason magazine has a very interesting article by Katherine Mangu-Ward about the paleo-future. The piece can be found in the October, 2007...

The July 20, 1958 Chicago Tribune ran this Closer Than We Think! strip. Not only will every family of the future have their own yacht, it w...

The introduction to the book Technology and Man's Future has a tone appropriate for 1972. The words seem to offer a first glimpse into ...

The 1987 GTE concept video Classroom of the Future demonstrates videophone technology as an essential tool in making people more productive...

As we see over and over again, the abstract concept of "the future" has been sold many different ways over the years. An article f...

This image appears in the 1979 book Future Cities: Homes and Living into the 21st Century . The magic of laser-holography, a new technique w...

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 See also: Connections: AT&T's Vision of the Future (1993) Writer and Producer of Connections: AT...

The March 21, 1957 Corpus Christi Times (Corpus Christi, TX) ran a short blurb titled, "Rickenbacker Says Space Travel To Be 'Commo...

The May 24, 1964 New York Times Magazine ran this ad from Sheaffer Pens. Marty Z was kind enough to send this my way, and mentions that i...

Danforth France sent me this great link to a 1986 news report on the future of Japanese retail. The new mantra of paleo-futurists may beco...

On June 15, 1957 a Plymouth Belvedere was buried in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The car was to serve as a time capsule which would be opened in 2007. A...

And now, the thrilling conclusion to the 1992 US West concept video Flowers by Alice . See also: Flowers by Alice (Part 1, 1992) Flowers by...

This Closer Than We Think! strip ran in the October 15, 1961 Chicago Tribune. The government may soon build an automatic highway, on which ...

[Update: The Paleo-Future blog has moved. You can read and comment on this entry here .] Flying Firemen The National Library of France (BnF...

The IsraGood blog points us to yet another company promising that ever-elusive flying car of the future. Urban Aeronautics claims that the...

According to part 4 of Flowers by Alice , in the future, all brides are ditzy Valley Girls with neck spasms. Be sure to check out part 6 o...

The May 4, 2003 New York Times Magazine ran an interesting piece by Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma . An excerpt appea...

The Paleo-Future blog and Boing Boing Gadgets have started a Flickr group called In the Year 2000 . As Joel over at BB Gadgets has noted, t...

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...