Paleo-Future

Jeff over at 2719 Hyperion has some amazing production art from the 1937 Donald Duck short film Modern Inventions , including this sketch o...

This 1934 Buck Rogers rocket ship toy appears in the book Ray Gun by Eugene W. Metcalf and Frank Maresca. The photography is by Charles Bec...

This image of "moon tourists [discovering] the pleasures of this Moon beach," is from the 1988 book The Earth's Moon (Isaac As...

The March 10, 1956 Ames Daily Tribune (Ames, IA) ran this story about a local play called Futurama 2056 . The entire piece appears below. F...

Given the recent American Airlines decision to charge for your first checked bag, it seemed appropriate to look at this Closer Than We Thin...

The March 5, 1980 Daily Press (Escanaba, MI) ran a piece about prophecies of the apocalypse. An excerpt appears below. Billy Graham, since ...

The September 5, 1925 Charleston Gazette (Charleston, WV) ran an article titled, "Expect Movies to be Produced in Every Home," in...

The January 4, 1959 issue of Parade magazine published a piece by Sid Ross titled, "Will Robots Make People Obsolete?" The piece ...

A few months back we looked at a clip from the February 26, 1967 episode of CBS's 21st Century . The episode includes an interview with...

Resembling a whale out of water, here you see the Dymaxion, a three-wheeled vehicle being manufactured at Bridgeport, Conn., as "the ca...

The February 28, 1957 Lowell Sun (Lowell, MA) ran a fantastic piece about the plant and animal life we would likely find on Mars. A map tha...

Hunting and Destroying Microbes The website Television History has five more French prints which imagine the year 2000. The site claims th...

This Saturday Night Live sketch from (1976?) is chock full of Walter Mondale , Fran Tarkenton , and a slew of other references sure to sail...

The January 22, 1967 Lowell Sun (Lowell, MA) ran this illustration of an experimental city of the future. Typical Experimental City may loo...

Bob MacKenzie wrote a relatively balanced and thoughtful piece about the future of television in the February 3, 1974 Oakland Tribune title...

G4's Attack of the Show mentioned the Paleo-Future blog last night. For some reason they gave the domain as paleofuture.org. Does that ...

The July 8, 1937 San Antonio Light (San Antonio, TX) ran a blurb about predictions for the year 2000. Apparently, children won't attend...

Ablestmage.com (via Waxy.org ) points us to terrific video of a personal household robot named Newton. "He" was marketed by the c...

Paleo-Future readers in the Twin Cities may have noticed a certain blogger on the front page of today's St. Paul Pioneer Press . No, it ...

The April 6, 1958 Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode Disappearing Trick ends with the master of suspense making a plea to the people of the...

This article from the July 29, 1934 Ogden Standard-Examiner (Ogden, UT) imagines the streamlined human of the future. In the piece, Count S...

The cover of the March, 1945 issue of Popular Science shows a streamlined bubble-top bus onto which passengers deplane. If we notice the le...

The February 12, 1922 Ogden Standard-Examiner (Ogden, UT) published this page, speculating on the world 10,000 years hence. The piece is a ...

The September 10, 1930 Syracuse Herald (Syracuse, NY) ran a piece about scientists' predictions for the future. A prediction is much mo...

The 1957 movie Desk Set , starring Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, explores fears of automation and computerization. When Tracy's c...

The camping trips of tomorrow will not only include throw-away clothes , but apparently stow-away airplanes. This edition of Closer Than We ...

The September 20, 1925 San Antonio Light (San Antonio, TX) speculated about the state of teenage love in 1955. An excerpt appears below. Th...

This "auto-tutor" from the 1964 World's Fair is very similar in concept to the " homework machine " we looked at fro...