Paleo-Future

Glenn T. Seaborg , former chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, wrote a piece for the April, 1967 issue of the Futurist (the secon...

This ad from the March 9, 1931 Simpson's Leader-Times (Kittanning, PA) is in no way subtle. The consequences of using recorded music at...

This illustration by Grant E. Hamilton ran in the February 16, 1895 issue of Judge magazine and can be found in the book Out of Time by No...

The September 28, 1958 Chicago Tribune ran this Closer Than We Think! strip about meat-plants of the future. There will be less grazing la...

In his 1991 book, Facing Tomorrow , author Thomas Hine opens with a decidedly pessimistic tone. The first chapter, "The End of the Futu...

The 1981 book School, Work and Play (World of Tomorrow) illustrates what the vacation of the future will surely look like. With robots and ...

This photo ran in the October 29, 1937 Chester Times (Chester, PA). The firefighter of the future is shown making his bow at a demonstratio...

The third and final chapter of our untitled 1991 Pacific Bell concept video introduces us to the public videophones of the future, similar...

Jeff over at Hyperion 2719 has this photo from the 1980s of assorted Disney characters in their futuristic rainbow costumes. See also: EPC...

Part 2 of this unnamed Pacific Bell concept video has a visual voicemail feature (or in this case, audible voicemail) that iPhone users may...

Forbes currently has an extensive examination of the future, with both past and present perspectives, posted online. Neil Steinberg's l...

Forget personal jet packs, where's my sky toboggan? The April, 1935 issue of Science and Mechanics featured this wonderful "Sky Sle...

The Paleo-Future blog made PC Magazine's list of their 100 Favorite Blogs . It's truly an honor and I'd like to thank everyone f...

The Skyscraper Museum , at 39 Battery Place in New York, has an exhibit opening at the end of the month that will certainly interest paleo-...

This unnamed Pacific Bell concept video from 1991 is set in the year 2003. With a young woman giving birth as our main plot device, we'...

The September 20, 1964 Chicago Tribune ran an article about Glenn T. Seaborg's predictions for the futuristic year of 1989. An excerpt...

The November 23, 1956 Pasadena Star-News (Pasadena, CA) ran this picture of the "TV-Phone" of the future. If I'm not mistaken...

GTE's 1987 concept video Classroom of the Future envisions a bright future for voice synthesis, speech recognition and insanely small m...

The October, 1939 issue of Amazing Stories published this painting of the atomic power plant of the future. The image can also be found in ...

The 1955 short documentary The Future is Now showed viewers what technological changes they could expect in the near future. The clip belo...

The Smithsonian has an online exhibit which includes these lunch boxes from the late 1950s and early 1960s. The satellite lunch box from 19...

This scene from the 1930 film Just Imagine shows how babies will be made in the futuristic world of 1980. The clip directly follows the sc...

If you read today's Wall Street Journal you may have seen a piece by Lee Gomes, which mentions the Paleo-Future blog. Another way to fo...

The May-June 1986 issue of The Futurist magazine ran an article titled, "The Future of Personal Robots." An excerpt appears below...

The article below appeared in the January 3, 1908 Des Moines Daily News (Des Moines, Iowa) under the title, "The Poor Past Centuries....

The August 28, 2007 issue of Esquire ran a piece by Chuck Klosterman on the Tulsa time capsule we examined a few weeks back. An excerpt a...

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 ...