Thanks for the many excellent websites you faithful blogistas nominated to be our second Blogroll Guest of the Month (…or a unit of time roughly equivalent, given my always-tenuous relationship to the calendar).
Commentor Meredith’s nomination wins the much-coveted spot:
PALEO-FUTURE: “A Look Into the Future That Never Was.”
And she explains the site well…
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Meredith on Apr 2, 2008 at 2:55 pm
http://www.paleofuture.com/ is good for fans of sci-fi. It’s a blog that collects articles, pictures and such of what people in the past (anything from the mid-90’s to the 19th century), thought the future would be like. As it turns out, they were (almost always) wrong. But entertainingly so.
Here’s a 1956 prediction for the House of the Future!!
(To see a much larger version, go here and click on the same picture.)
Some questions:
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1) Being that I am in the future, where is my personal helicopter?
2) What in blue blazes is Grandpa wearing? (on the far left) That some kind of skort?
3) “Giant-size Fruit?” I don’t know what kind of sick future this drawing proposes, but mister, I call that thing a cat.
Many thanks to Meredith, and everyone else who suggested sites. In the next few days I’ll do a roundup of some other fun links nominated.
I leave you with this “Future War Tank” from 1939, courtesy of our new blogroll guest.
(…And oh yeah, future, when do I get my gigantic, all-powerful personal tank?
Pfffft. The future totally ripped me off.)
17 responses so far ↓
1 mathey on Apr 7, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Great site!
I’m filled with nostalgia for 1980’s EPCOT. Particularly the old “Horizons” ride. Sure, it was wrong about pretty much everything, but it had hovercars, people with pet seals, and Totally Awesome synth music.
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2 mikeB on Apr 7, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Grandpa is wearing a “Speed Suit” Not a jump suit, a “Speed Suit”.
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3 “Sticks” on Apr 7, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Oh man, I love this stuff!
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4 Barry on Apr 8, 2008 at 12:32 am
You can pretty much have all that stuff easily with today’s technology, if you’ve got the money to blow on it.
Including the pants-less woman sitting on the counter.
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Reply from Bill Corbett on April 8, 2008:
She does indeed look pantless in the smaller version, and I thought it was a pretty audacious prediction that young women would simply go bottomless in public.
But clicking the bigger picture, you can see that she’s wearing some kind of tan-colored capri pants. Of the FUTURE!
Disappointing? Yes.
Reply from Barry on April 8, 2008:
Lies!! That’s just a tan line.
5 Tork_110 on Apr 8, 2008 at 4:06 am
Forget the home of the future. Where’s my woman of the future? I’ll buy any car for her.
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6 AmandaGal on Apr 8, 2008 at 4:08 am
I think that picture predicted Internet porn. The pantless lady on the counter looks like she’s doing a “webcam show” for the blonde goofball in the screen.
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Reply from Tim D on April 8, 2008:
Wow! They did get some things right!
7 Nerf on Apr 8, 2008 at 5:01 am
33 channels? It must be “THE FUTURE!” Oh…wait, I think that’s just channel 3, and the TV has really bad “ghosting”.
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8 Courtney on Apr 8, 2008 at 7:37 am
Salad bars and cowboy murals?! The future is going to RULE!
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9 R.A. Roth on Apr 8, 2008 at 10:27 am
I think “Space 1999″ sums up the futility in predicting the future of mankind, as do the 2001 series and just about every stab at presaging where the arrow of human events shall land.
Randy
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10 Rob T Firefly on Apr 8, 2008 at 10:39 am
If it’s personal tanks you’re into, check out this kid’s homemade Panzer.
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11 Virginia Corbett on Apr 8, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Reminds me of this tee from the most awesome Threadless.com:
http://www.threadless.com/product/63/Damn_Scientists#zoom
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12 RemmieBarrow on Apr 8, 2008 at 3:30 pm
I really do not think anyone has predicted the future correctly.
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Reply from Beautiful Houndstooth on April 8, 2008:
I knew you were going to say that.
13 Rob on Apr 14, 2008 at 3:52 pm
“may i point out that this is nether the future or a war”
Future war - mst3k
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