It’s crazy to think both how short and infinitely long a century is. You see, Motorola’s DynaTAC, the first cell phone, was launched in 1984 for a price of $3,995. And today, nobody can imagine their life without touch-screen mobiles with integrated Leica cameras and AI face recognition systems that come at much less than Motorola’s initial price.
So imagine how differently people back then perceived the advancements in technology that looked both incredible and life-changing. And they were. But technology, and the world we live in, escalates so quickly that it surpasses our best forecasts for what the future holds.
And this time, we are talking a look at retro-futuristic examples created in the previous century that give us a glimpse into weird and wonderful dreams of the human mind.
#1 An Artists Depiction Of The Future, Painted In 1930
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#2 A Fifties Navigation System. Don't Know Who Imagined This But I Love It!
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#3 1940s Vision Of Food Delivery Future
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#4 We Really Messed Up
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#5 Television Newspaper - Some Day You May Be Able To Receive The Front Page Of Your Morning Newspaper This Way
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#6 Self Driving Cars Of The Future, Circa 1960
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#7 2022
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#8 'ship's Cat' By Keith Spangle
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#9 The Future Of Phones, 1956
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#10 James Bond Receives A "Text" Via His Smartwatch In The Spy Who Loved Me
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#11 1970s Futuristic Concept For Jetliner Air Travel
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#12 1969 Japanese Vision Of The Future Classroom, The Odd Part Is That Included Small Robots To Rap Students On The Head When Misbehaving
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#13 VR In 1989
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#14 Artoo Deco
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#15 How Nasa Imagined Life In Space
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#16 1981 Vision Of Suburbia After There's No More Room Left For Suburbs
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#17 Home Shopping In The 1940s
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#18 Futuristic Road Trip With The Family (Bruce Mccall)
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#19 City Of The Future As Imagined In 1908
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#20 The Future We Were Promised
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#21 Soviet Vision Of The Future In The 1930s
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#22 Futuristic Netherlands, Drawn In 1970
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#23 1984 Smart Watch
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#24 The 2020 Olympics...not 100% Accurate
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#25 Monsanto House Of The Future 1957
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#26 This Was An Actual Space Suit Grumman Aircraft Corp Tried To Sell Nasa In 1962
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#27 Teen-Agers Of The 21st Century
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#28 Nuke-Proof Underground City Below Manhattan, 1969 (Oscar Newman)
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