Vintage Future

scificovers:

Weltraumstation (Space Station) (1949), unpublished watercolor study by Klaus Bürgle

Makes what space stations we have managed to launch into orbit seem downright puny, doesn’t it?

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latimes:

The brave new world of…2013

You may not have a robot dog, techno-comforts or kids listening to “futura-rock.” But some of the predictions in this recently-rediscovered issue of the Los Angeles Times Magazine largely hold true.

Predictions about the increased prevalence of telecommunication, smarter cars (though ours don’t look as funky as the ones seen above) and globalization all seem to be rather spot-on, considering they were made in 1988!

That said, there’s no way your morning starts out like this:

With a barely perceptible click, the Morrow house turns itself on, as it has every morning since the family had it retrofitted with the Smart House system of wiring five years ago…in the study, the family’s personalized home newspaper, featuring articles on the subjects that interest them…is being printed by laser-jet printer off the home computer – all while the family sleeps.

Read through the full article here.

Photos: Los Angeles Times

The future is now!

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portadaz:

2000 Years On by Gems from the Collection on Flickr.

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themedvedable:

The City of the Future.

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9emeart:

Affiche pour la Douce

Francois Schuiten

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cornballer:

lol “Play pinball while in the pool, in…. THE FUUUTUUUUUURE”

hatethefuture:

The illustration above comes from Bruce McCall’s Zany Afternoons, my favorite book as a kid. I grew to adore all the usual science fiction, but McCall has a singular vision that will always stick with me—a blending of the now and the soon and the recent past—a dreamy nostalgia for disasters that hadn’t happened yet, like time was a pure contradiction, expanding in every direction. 

n-architecture:

The city of the future (April, 1934 Popular Science Monthly)

Imagining a City of Treelike Buildings

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magnetic bullet trains

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inothernews:

The World of 1950, as Envisioned in 1925.

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crookedindifference:

The future: Tatsushi Morimoto, ca. 80s

Love all the parks!

spacequest:

“The Tokyo of 2061” by Tenan Ito,

“Tanoshii Yonensei” (Happy 4th Year Student), 1961

Is it the future yet? I want my elevated roads!

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The Next Frontier by Isaac Asimov
National Geographic July 1976

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