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The Paleofuture Blog is moving! 29 Sep 2011 | 09:19 am
I started the Paleofuture blog in 2007 as part of a writing class I was taking at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. At the time I thought that I'd maybe keep it up for just a couple of months. Li...
The Push-Button School of Tomorrow (1958) 25 Aug 2011 | 08:51 am
The May 5, 1958 edition of Arthur Radebaugh's Sunday comic, Closer Than We Think, showed off the high-tech school of tomorrow. With hordes of baby boomers flooding into public schools in the 1950s, it...
Smoking Robots of the Future (1931) 21 Aug 2011 | 11:42 am
This picture of the bucket-headed Willie Vocalite appeared in the September 6, 1931 San Antonio Light. Designed by Westinghouse engineer Joseph Barnett, Willie appears to have been programmed with a f...
This future was made in a facility that also processes peanuts (1982) 20 Aug 2011 | 07:34 am
I've never thought of my allergies as a big deal. Sure, my peanut allergy has caused an emergency room visit here and there, and my dad used to pick me up from sleepovers because of my emphysema-like ...
New York's tallest building of the future (1881) 19 Aug 2011 | 07:09 am
When cartoonist Thomas Nast drew this illustration of future Manhattan for Harper's Weekly in 1881, Trinity Church was the tallest building in New York, with its spire and cross reaching 281 feet into...
Super-Intelligent Ape Chauffeurs by the Year 2020 18 Aug 2011 | 10:16 am
Planet of the Apes (1968) http://movieposterdb.com Before it became a magazine, The Futurist was launched as a newsletter in 1967. The second issue was released in April of that year and is filled wi...
Disney's "Project X" in 1966 16 Aug 2011 | 01:27 pm
It's easy to forget -- even for a Disney nerd like myself -- that before Walt Disney died of lung cancer in December of 1966, EPCOT (the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow) was supposed to b...
Crossing a telephone with a TV set in 1968 11 Aug 2011 | 12:40 pm
In this most gloriously futuristic year of 2011 we somehow find ourselves awash in videophones. In a way, they snuck up on us. And they most certainly didn't show up in the ways that people had been p...
Walter Cronkite Explores the Home of 2001 10 Aug 2011 | 11:20 am
While visiting New York a few years ago I stopped in at the Paley Center for Media (formerly the Museum of Television and Radio). They have quite an extensive collection of TV programs that anyone can...
"Sense and the City" at the London Transport Museum 7 Aug 2011 | 06:52 am
A new exhibit recently opened at the London Transport Museum which will likely be of interest to readers of this humble blog. Called "Sense and the City," the exhibition looks at the cultural and tech...
