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  • Rated by qualityinspire on Oct 17, 9:33pm

    Vintage Space age illustrations

  • Rated by TheImaginator on Sep 15, 3:37am

    Some of these ideas became reality. The TV on a wristwatch, solar heated houses, sky diving, people living in space (ISS), jet packs, flying cars (actually just an aeroplane with wings removed, crap as a car but good as a small plane). Do not diss this stuff too easily. As for the final picture 'This could happen to you'; I think that was the auto industry trying to kill off the monorail industry with propaganda (a valid business technique at one time).

  • Rated by DrSnacks on Sep 08, 7:25pm

    Here's a drinking game you can play with this page if you're a recovering alcoholic: Take a shot every time you see a non-white person.

  • Rated by BrianH1988 on Aug 17, 7:44pm

    I don't want my jetpack. I want a computer that can think to fix its own errors (without killing off the human race). Besides that, if you take any stock in the future, you know it's hardly predictable. Who would've thought we'd be carrying tiny cell phones 50 years ago? The truth is often stranger than fiction. This has no learning value whatsoever, except for to look back and dawdle on what seems the foolishness (although they were simply working with what they had) of old. The reason we should study history is to learn what has and hasn't worked to better ourselves and our nations. In that manner, this information is rather disinformation, telling us what people thought the world would be like serves no practical purpose, except to tell us that we are even more shortsighted now than we were back then (or how history will describe us, most likely). Okay, with a bit of thought, let me revise that. It DOES serve a small bit of practical purpose, which is to show us how the mindset has evolved over the years. And it's clear that we're deevolving into our primal instincts when you compare now with then. Americans, especially, have gotten drunk with pride in unsustainable lifestyles; many of us have loads of debt just so we can live out someone else's definition of the American Dream. This is what you make it. To me, it's little more than reminiscence of the past that I wouldn't remember.

  • Rated by kirkum2020 on Aug 06, 3:58pm

    Why are our past visions of future technology almost always red and yellow? Were they just the cheapest colours inkwise?

  • Rated by barryr666 on Aug 04, 12:41pm

    Wacky visions of the future? A number have become reality although not necessarily as portrayed; para-sailing but not behind a helicopter, WW1 tank, jet packs, folding wings on aircraft for carrier duties.

  • Rated by SeventiesGirl70 on Jun 17, 11:40am

    Thank you Purplegem. Very interesting. The monorail came true. The pictures are really neat. I wonder if we will have these space age things in 100 years from now? less? later? something to think about.

  • Rated by SisterEurope on Jun 17, 8:42am

    Funny ! Thanks Goldeneagle49

  • Rated by rachaeltapia on May 25, 6:09pm

    Its not like we need most of that stuff anyway. :P