Predictions for the Year 2018 From the 20th Century
It’s the year 2018. And while we have some very cool tech that we take for granted, we’re still waiting on quite a few…
LA's Futuristic Torpedo Cars Were Supposed to Fix The Traffic Problem
According to the LA Times in 1923, it took streetcars 30 minutes to move just six blocks in downtown LA that summer.…
These Photos of Belgrade's Socialist Architecture Look Like Ancient Spaceships
Commercial photographer Mirko Nahmijas has been taking photos of the mid-20th century Brutalist architecture in…
André Courrèges Defined the Shape of Space Age Fashion
David Bowie wasn’t the only icon we lost in the past few days. André Courrèges, the indelible Parisian fashion designer…
Watch The 1939 World's Fair Come To Life In This Documentary
The 1939 World’s Fair was an incredible event that showcased the ‘World of Tomorrow’. Now, director Amanda Murray has…
12 Fantastic Scifi Vehicles from a Century Ago
Electric airships, submarines, and other futuristic vessels were the main attractions on the covers of a pulp novel…
Magna Carta Of Space Was A First Attempt At Laws For The Final Frontier
Back in 1966, we’d barely taken our first spacewalks. But already, one attorney was thinking ahead.
Tomorrowland Is Baby-Boomer Nostalgia At Its Most Dreary
Lots of movies have a wonderful first half, followed by a blah second half. Setup is often easier than follow-through.…
The Illustrated History of Jet Packs
The jetpack is so closely associated with the dream of a thrilling future, you only have to ask “Where’s my jetpack?”…
These 80s And 90s Versions Of Your Favorite Apps Show How Far We've Come
User interfaces have come a long way in the past 30 years. Not just because graphics and touchscreens have improved —…
When People In The 1920s And 1930s Imagined The Future, They Dreamed Big
The Space Age gave us some beautiful, rocket-shaped visions of future cities. But before World War II, people were…
Someone Is Blogging Late 1950s-Early 1960s Science Fiction In Real Time
What if there was a blogger tackling the history of science fiction at the end of the Golden Age, as it happened? It…
Cars From Another Universe: Bizarre Motor Vehicles That Never Caught On
When it comes to motor vehicles, history is filled with curious also-rans. If the inventors of these contraptions had…
Woman First Walked On The Moon In 1957. Then She Tried To Stop Apollo 11
If you're looking for a badass, retrofuturistic space heroine to brighten your afternoon, look no further. Short film …
In 1900, Two Inventors Audition For A Stage Show About The Year 2000
The year is 1900 and Georges and Madeleine are trying to get a gig showing off the wonders of life in the year 2000,…
How We Imagined The Future Of Transportation Would Look In The 1940s
These ads made for the Detroit-based Bohn Aluminum and Brass Corporation were largely dreamed up by legendary…
42 Visions For Tomorrow From The Golden Age of Futurism
It's 2015. But sometimes it feels like our futuristic dreams are stuck in the 1950s and 60s. And there's actually a…
In 1976, Arthur C. Clarke Knew A Lot About Cell Phones And The Internet
Vintage interviews of Arthur C. Clarke predicting the future of computing continue to surface. Here's one from 1976,…
Behold The Glorious Retrofuturistic City From Tomorrowland's Concept Art
We're still not entirely sure what's going on in Brad Bird's upcoming film Tomorrowland, but we are excited to spend…
A Memory From The Future That Never Was
They had talked about it for so long, what they would do on the space station, how they would decorate their…