tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post5913727862097623153..comments2023-11-03T04:29:29.498-04:00Comments on Paleo-Future: Aerial Mono-Flyer of the Future (1918)Matt Novakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09360406896692501416noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-4889452005936220932008-08-16T11:57:00.000-04:002008-08-16T11:57:00.000-04:00I'd have to call Hugo Gernsback "Mr. Paleo-Future"...I'd have to call Hugo Gernsback "Mr. Paleo-Future"; his "Electrical Experimenter" was among the first magazines to publish science fiction regularly, he actually tried to name that genre (though his "scientifiction" name never caught on), started the first all-SF mag (Amazing Stories) that published the first "Buck Rogers" story ("Armageddon: 2419") in 1928, lent his name to SF's prestigious "Hugo Award", and had become a metaphor by the time William Gibson's short story "The Gernsback Continuum" launched the "Cyberpunk" movement in SF in the 1980s (the story follows a photographer who starts to hallucinate the paleofuture while photographing abandoned art-deco buildings). For decades, certainly while I was growing up, Gernsback was the go-to guy for outrageously futuristic pronouncements (Life Magazine, for example, showed him wearing a "television eyeglasses" prototype in 1960). He was as much an ubergeek as his contemporary R. Buckminster Fuller, and probably at least as influential.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com