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JPL produced space travel posters
Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2017 11:43 pm
by Nonc Hilaire
Re: Futurism of the Past
Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2017 9:25 pm
by Heracleum Persicum
Take a picture of your face with an iPad .. the coffee machine prints the picture on your coffee
Love the idea
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Re: Futurism of the Past
Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2017 2:32 am
by Typhoon
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Re: Futurism of the Past
Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2018 5:12 am
by Typhoon
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Re: Futurism of the Past
Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 8:06 am
by NapLajoieonSteroids
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Re: Futurism of the Past
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2018 4:37 am
by Miss_Faucie_Fishtits
Edgelord 1983....... using a rotary phone with your dialup modem......
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Re: Futurism of the Past
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2018 7:31 pm
by Nonc Hilaire
Miss_Faucie_Fishtits wrote:Edgelord 1983....... using a rotary phone with your dialup modem......
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Amazing! Acoustic coupler no longer necessary! I bet they can get 300 baud on that setup!
Re: Futurism of the Past
Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2018 3:01 am
by Miss_Faucie_Fishtits
Nonc Hilaire wrote:Miss_Faucie_Fishtits wrote:Edgelord 1983....... using a rotary phone with your dialup modem......
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Amazing! Acoustic coupler no longer necessary! I bet they can get 300 baud on that setup!
Gadzooks!....... er.........
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadzooks_(retailer)
Re: Futurism of the Past
Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2018 2:49 am
by Typhoon
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Well, they got the hair colour fashion of the future mostly right.
Re: Futurism of the Past
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2018 10:08 pm
by Nonc Hilaire
Re: Futurism of the Past
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2018 4:17 pm
by Typhoon
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Re: Futurism of the Past
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2018 6:42 pm
by Typhoon
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Metropolis [1927] came very close to getting this prediction right.
Re: Futurism of the Past
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2018 7:32 pm
by Typhoon
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Re: Futurism of the Past
Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2018 7:41 pm
by Nonc Hilaire
Re: Futurism of the Past
Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2019 10:57 pm
by Nonc Hilaire
Re: Futurism of the Past
Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2019 12:19 am
by Typhoon
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Re: Futurism of the Past
Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2019 2:44 am
by Nonc Hilaire
Colonel Sun wrote:53464685_2099568650135621_3106576581368217600_n.jpg
This is good. Saucer has a rear-view mirror, grille, headlights and a stick radio antenna. And poor dad is still pushing a lawnmower around.
Re: Futurism of the Past
Posted: Fri Apr 19, 2019 7:14 pm
by Typhoon
Nonc Hilaire wrote:Colonel Sun wrote:53464685_2099568650135621_3106576581368217600_n.jpg
This is good. Saucer has a rear-view mirror, grille, headlights and a stick radio antenna. And poor dad is still pushing a lawnmower around.
The flying saucer interior is 1950's. No seatbelts, no headrests.
Also, the home is elegant mid-century modernist [Eichler?] rather than an over the top faux McMansion.
Re: Futurism of the Past
Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2019 2:00 am
by Miss_Faucie_Fishtits
Re: Futurism of the Past
Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2019 1:03 am
by Typhoon
Blade Runner is now futurism of the past, retro-future.
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Re: Futurism of the Past
Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2019 1:09 am
by Doc
Buck Rogers:
Elon Musk:
Re: Futurism of the Past
Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 5:34 pm
by Typhoon
Best of Life | 23 Hilarious Predictions About the Year 2020 That Are Way Off
it is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future.
~ Danish proverb; Niels Bohr, attributed.
Re: Futurism of the Past
Posted: Wed Feb 12, 2020 6:17 pm
by Typhoon
Osaka Expo 1970
Followed the highly successful Expo 1967 in Montréal.
The monorail built for the exhibition still operates today from Itami airport to the Hankyu rail line and stops at the Expo Commemorative Park.
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Re: Futurism of the Past
Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2020 3:36 am
by noddy
that would be the first monorail Ive heard of which is more than just a white elephant.
in nearly all cases they are just a very expensive and clumsy way of doing a bus route.
Re: Futurism of the Past
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2020 4:15 am
by Typhoon
noddy wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2020 3:36 am
that would be the first monorail Ive heard of which is more than just a white elephant.
in nearly all cases they are just a very expensive and clumsy way of doing a bus route.
Well, it's in active use.
The
Osaka Monorail connects with most of the major train lines and one of the subway lines.
There is a proposal to add four more stations.
My only complaint is that the train connections are at minor stations, only serviced by the local milk-run trains, not the express trains.
In Tokyo, there is the Tokyo Monorail, built for the Tokyo 1964 Olympics, which runs from Haneda International Airport to downtown connecting with the Yamanote [Green] line which does a loop around Tokyo. Apparently, there is a proposal to extend the monorail to central Tokyo Station, the original plan.
As you may recall, monorails were a huge fad solution to public transport during part of the 20th century. However, they never, er, took off.