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the moving pictures that are being made now the people of our time will not be mere history book ghosts to this boy but living creatures who smile at him and walk and play and love and hate and work and eat if only we had today moving pictures of the times of washington and lincoln imagine a fourth of july celebration with moving pictures of the signing of the declaration the historical value of moving picture plays will be as great as that of movies of current events the 1920 photoplay exhibited in the year 1995 will serve as an exposition of the social life and manners of this period and despite its faults the present generation will make a fairly good showing when it appears in the movies before posterity in 1995 and thereabouts the schoolboys of that time may laugh at some of the ways of their ancestors but in the main they will agree that they were a pretty good sort at that read more movies will replace texbooks 1922 thinks we ll do our reading on screen 1923 movie theater of the future 1930 movies to be produced in every home 1925 big laughs coming 1922 posted by matt novak at 5 56 pm no comments labels 1920s books cedar rapids evening gazette education motion pictures movies wednesday november 19 2008 french flying machines 1890 1900 these french cards archived at the library of congress were produced sometime between 1890 and 1900 most of the cards illustrate important feats from ballooning history between 1795 1846 while card number two pictured above depicts futuristic visions of flight from the 1800s it s striking how similar these imagined flying machines are to those we looked at from 1885 the paleo future store features button sets of those paleo futuristic flying machines from 1885 which you can check out here les utopies de la navigation aérienne au siècle dernier read more flying machines circa 1885 french prints show the year 2000 1910 boy s flying machine of the 20th century 1900 futuristic air travel circa 1900 going to the opera in the year 2000 1882 postcards show the year 2000 circa 1900 posted by matt novak at 12 51 am no comments labels 1890s flying machines french library of congress paleo future online store personal transport vehicle transportation tuesday november 18 2008 a cashless future society 1968 the july 24 1968 las cruces sun news las cruces nm ran this piece by jack lefler about the possibility of a cashless society that would use a single identification card new york ap want to hunt polar bear in alaska entertain your mother in law at a paris restaurant rent a house boat for a mississippi cruise hire a big name orchestra for your daughter s wedding reception and charge it all you need is a credit card these are some of the more bizarre ways you can use a credit card but their purchasing power covers the whole gamut of goods and services it s estimated that americans are carrying 200 million credit cards and using them to spend around 50 billion a year as a result of the proliferation of credit cards there has been widespread speculation about the possibilities of a checkless cashless society in the future some bankers envision nationwide system in which a single identification card would be used in place of all checks and almost all cash but american express a big name in the credit card industry says the single card system couldn t be further from reality today the most striking feature of our present system of transferring money is the multiplicity of credit cards credit cards as we know them today were pioneered in 1950 by diners club which was created with 200 members an initial investment of 18 000 and a handful ot restaurants in the new york city area within a year it had grown to 10 000 members who could charge at more than 1 000 establishments credit cards now fall into three categories travel and entertainment operators in this field are american express diners club and carte blanche these cards are held primarily by business and professional men private label oil companies airlines hotels car rental companies and department stores offer these cards primarily to promote their services or products revolving credit cards these cards largely regional or local in nature are issued mainly by banks and financial organizations and are meant primarily for use by housewives for shopping the credit card companies derive their revenue from discounts from establishments which accept the cards in lieu of cash and from membership fees some credit card practices have come in for criticism recently mainly because of the mailing of unsolicited cards by banks and some others in the revolving credit field read more credit card rings 1964 online shopping 1967 prelude to a great depression the chronicle telegram 1929 posted by matt novak at 1 18 am 7 comments labels 1960s american express carte blanche cashless credit cards diners club finance money national id card san cruces sun news monday november 17 2008 the millennium bug 1998 the 1998 book the millennium bug by michael s hyatt is pretty pessimistic about mankind s future given the y2k problem ironically mr hyatt blogged more recently about cynics who are pessimistic about the future he says that real leaders look on the sunny side priceless turnaround as ridiculous as the hysteria over y2k may have been it was certainly more palatable than the current 2012 nonsense whatever happened to being afraid of a good old fashioned robot uprising my favorite warning from the front cover of the book says that the illusion of social stability is about to be shattered and nothing can stop it if this is even remotely true why buy this book do you feel as if you re living with the illusion of social stability might we all crack in a moment s notice does every generation feel so special as to believe they live in the end times the rest of the supposed catastrophic results of the y2k bug were outlined on the book s back cover social security checks will stop coming planes all over the world will be grounded credit card charges will be rejected military defense systems will fail police records and emergency communications will be inaccessible there will be massive long term power failures bank funds will be inaccessible insurance policies will appear to have expired telephone systems will fail to operate irs tax records and government funds will be unavailable the federal reserve will be unable to clear checks time security vaults will fail to open or close on time traffic signals will fail to function office systems will fail and your employer will go out of business ed note this seems rather specific my employer will go out of business it s as if you re pointing directly at me through this book how did you do that magic book read more the robot rebellion 1982 final date of the earth august 18 1999 1973 the prophetic year 2000 1968 the 1980s countdown to armageddon nucelar war to start september 12 2006 nuclear war revisited 2006 apocalypse soon 1980 posted by matt novak at 12 16 am 9 comments labels 1990s 2012 apocalypse doomsday mayan social stability y2k year 2000 friday november 14 2008 commuting will be a breeze 1957 the october 22 1957 chillicothe constitution tribune chillicothe mo ran this image of a flying bus of the future commuting will be a breeze in the future according to a national science magazine which envisions tomorrow s workers traveling from home to business at 100 m p h via a ducted fan flying bus like the one above the design originated by charles zimmerman of the national advisory committee for aeronautics provides a control dome for pilot and copilot and seats 40 passengers behind large door windows which provide an unexcelled view artist author frank tinsley of mechanix illustrated magazine depicts the craft which will support itself on columns of air forced downward through its twin fans read more nuclear rocketship 1959 commuter helicopter 1947 flying saucer buses 1950 posted by matt novak at 8 03 pm 5 comments labels 1950s bus frank tinsley mechanix illustrated transportation thursday november 13 2008 meal pill skeptic 1936 we ve looked at plenty of predictions about how in the future we d all be eating meal pills from turkey dinners to beer to tutti fruitti it was a question of when we would enjoy them in pill form not if we would but in the october 6 1936 jefferson city post tribune jefferson city mo dr milton a bridges rains on the meal pill parade the entire piece appears below kansas city oct 6 ap alack and alas the hardworking housewife must give up her dream of dispensing with a four course meal by simply feeding hubby a concentrated food pill it can t be done an authority said today the calory factor will necessitate continued operation of america s kitchens explained dr milton a bridges assistant clinical professor of medicine at columbia university and dietitics authority human beings never are going to eat pills for meals said dr bridges emphatically pills can never be made to contain sufficient caloric volume caloric volume the quantity of calories is a factor of daily diet that must be kept to quota dr bridges explained it is perfectly plausible to supply all the vitamins and minerals needed for a meal in pill form but you can t get calories except by eating foods and you d have to eat the same foods we eat now to get those calories added dr bridges these foods if the diet is properly balance will provide the other necessary elements at the same time dr bridges declared making the pills just so much surplusage as far as the normal appetite is concerned dr bridges is attending the annual fall conference of the southwest clinical society read more whole meal in pill 1923 food of the future indiana progress 1896 just imagine 1930 that synthetic food of the future ogden standard examiner 1926 cigarettes of the year 2000 1944 posted by matt novak at 10 34 pm 6 comments labels 1930s food jefferson city post tribune meal in a pill milton bridges wednesday november 12 2008 jetscalator 1960 reader tom z sent in this march 27 1960 edition of closer than we think featuring the jetscalator tom explains this ctwt has held special significance for me and anyone else who has used dulles until quite recently i haven t flown in years but i understand that the famous mobile terminals are finally gone a case of a futuristic idea that didn t work all that well in the real world the handful of times that i ve been through the dulles airport i ve felt that i was going to miss my flight because of those slow moving shuttles i hadn t heard that they might be doing away with the mobile lounges can anyone confirm that this is true the text from jetscalator appears below jet planes and the number of passengers they carry are getting bigger and bigger distances between terminals and loading docks are getting longer the answer is a traveling waiting room with a moving ramp such a project is already being developed by the chrysler corporation and it may be used at the new washington d c terminal now being designed by eero saarinen the jetscalator as it might be called would move on wheels higher than a man it would have an up or down ramp and capacity for about 100 people when departure time is at hand travelers wouldn t have to stir from their chairs they d be transported in the jetscalator right to the side of the plane next week cellar size scoopers read more luggage blowers 1961 airport of the future 1967 fuller s traveling cartridge circa 1960s passenger air travel 1945 closer than we think 1958 1963 posted by matt novak at 10 26 pm 3 comments labels 1960s airport of the future arthur radebaugh chrysler closer than we think dulles airport eero saarinen mobile lounge tuesday november 11 2008 the universal writing formula for futurism i can t believe it took me this long but i figured out the universal writing formula for futurism it just clicked after reading a 1980s newspaper article about robots let me know what i m missing imagine ten twenty fifty years in the future your car toaster robot speaks to you no it s not your friend mom crazy fever dream your life just got better with technology if article appears between 1971 and 1979 replace better with shitty in the worst way the december 8 1985 syracuse herald journal syracuse ny ran a piece about the personal robots of the future which uses this formula the excerpt below quotes nelson winkless author of the 1984 book if i had a robot imagine driving down the highway 10 or 20 years from now suddenly a small voice says you haven t called your mother lately don t you think you d better call her today no it s not your conscience it s your own personal robot a funny little creature that keeps track of your obligations and watches out for you of course no one really knows what robots of the future will do to make your life easier but a new mexico robotics expert and author nelson winkless expects them to be more than mechanical housekeepers before we have robots that will do windows we re going to have self cleaning windows he said in a telephone interview from corales n m i expect them to be useful in ways yet unanticipated suppose you had this little guy bumbling after you keeping track of things you may come to a corner and he ll say why don t you slow down and watch out here says winkless who wrote if i had a robot what to expect of the personal robot dilithium press 9 95 we have just gotten to the point where we have robots that operate intuitively they look at information and say in all of my experience in life what does this remind me of most they can see opportunities and problems and point them out joe herrera robot product manager for tomy corp in carson calif thinks there will be a robot in every garage by the year 2000 one robot for the home may be able to wash your car and tell the kids stories says herrera whose company manufactures robot toys right now personal robots are in the same stage handheld calculators were 10 years ago but every year we re learning more and more read more if i had a robot 1984 newton the household robot 1989 the future of personal robots 1986 robo shop 1989 japanese retail robots 1986 in a cashless future robots will cook 1996 posted by matt novak at 9 03 pm 5 comments labels 1980s personal robots robots universal writing formula for futurism voice recognition monday november 10 2008 weather made to order 1954 before starting the paleo future blog i had no idea that weather control was such a prominent feature of mid 20th century futurism raised on jurassic park s pop version of chaos theory i suppose that little matty was deathly afraid a butterfly beating its wings in indochina would cause a typhoon in omaha and thus messing with a single little black raincloud would surely cause massive unforeseen destruction ah the carefree years of our youth the may 28 1954 issue of collier s predicted that mankind and by that we mean the united states would eventually have complete control over weather an excerpt from the piece by capt h 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