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Recapping “The Jetsons”: Episode 01 – Rosey the Robot
Jane Jetson working out her strained fingers in the premiere episode of “The Jetsons” (1962) This is the first in a 24-part series looking at every episode of “The Jetsons” TV show from the original...
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Recapping “The Jetsons”: Episode 02 – A Date With Jet Screamer
45 RPM record of the Jetsons theme song and “Eep Opp Ork Ah Ah” from 1962 (misspelled “OOP”) This is the second in a 24-part series looking at every episode of “The Jetsons” TV show from the original...
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Predictions From The Father of Science Fiction
Men watch baseball on a color television of the future (July 1922 Science and Invention magazine) Hugo “Awards” Gernsback was many different things to different people. To his fans, he was a visionary...
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Aldous Huxley’s Predictions for 2000 A.D.
There seems to be two occasions when people most enjoy making predictions: anniversaries (think the American Bicentennial, New Year’s, etc) and dates that include round numbers (any year ending in...
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Your Genetic Future: Horse-Dogs, Plantimals and Mini-Rhino Pets
The mini-rhino of the future, accomplished through genetic engineering (1982) Maybe you’ve heard the internet meme-ish question: would you rather fight one horse-sized duck or a hundred duck-sized...
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Ordering Pizza Online in the Retrofuture
Sandra Bullock’s character in The Net (1995) orders a pizza online “Internet introverts are socially dysfunctional; they write online, talk online, view the world from online, order books and pizza...
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3D-TV, Automated Cooking and Robot Housemaids: Walter Cronkite Tours the Home...
Walter Cronkite gives a tour of the home office of 2001 on his show The 21st Century (1967) Legendary news anchor Walter Cronkite’s regular half-hour CBS documentary program “The 21st Century” was a...
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Robot Vanna, Trashy Presidents and Steak as Health Food: Samsung Sells Tomorrow
Portion of a 1988 Samsung ad in Smithsonian magazine Advertisers love to use futurism as a way to position their products as forward-thinking. Often, that connection to futurism comes with a healthy...
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Ban Everything: Concern Over Future Blue Laws During the Lead Up to Alcohol...
1919 illustration in Life magazine showing a future exodus from the U.S. over new bans (Source: Predictions by John Durant) Anytime the government tries to ban something there are usually loud...
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$18 for a Dozen Eggs by 2010? Inflation Fears in 1982
Cover of the 1982 book Omni Future Almanac (Source: Novak Archive) The Omni Future Almanac was published in 1982 — a year when America would see double-digit inflation and double-digit unemployment....
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