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Tales of the Future Past

Posted by michael on from the where's-my-flying-car? dept.

atlacatl writes "One of the coolest sites I've been to: Tales of the Future Past - It tells the story (In pictures) of the predictions of the new millenium, early in the 20th century. I had forgotten the web was actually fun and interesting - use at your own risk."

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  1. National Geographic by stoolpigeon · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is one of the great things about digging through old stacks of National Geo. Especially issues from the '50s and earlier. My Grandmother had tons of them and I would sit for hours looking at the diagrams of the moon base that was going to have been built by the '80s.

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  2. On the "Flying Wing" magazine cover... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...David Sarnoff, RCA President, Predicts "Television will Carry the Mail".

    Actually he wasn't too far off, eh?

  3. the futures here we just can afford it by genner · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Lets see what don't we have. Flying cars? Yup got those just need some obscene amount of cash + piolts lisecense to get one. http://www.moller.com/skycar/ Hover boards? Got those too,although their more surf board than skate board sized, and with a large engine hanging on the back. Still not cheap. http://www.futurehorizons.net/hoverboard.htm Thos cool screens that take up the whole wall. Got those too, provided you can afford it. http://www.superscreen.com/ Video phones. Got those, not too expensive but most people just don't care about them. Won't bother posting a link every knows about these. OK so where still missing our space elevator, can't have everything I guess.

  4. The Shape of Things to Come by meehawl · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The 1936 movie of HG Wells' Shape of Things to Come is good for this sort of thing. Captures that 30s "futuristic" look perfectly.

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  5. Re:analyzing past predictions by nizo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Your post hit it right on the head. We have so many theories, beliefs, etc. that we cling to for dear life that people in the future will just laugh at. Phrenology, ether, and many others at which we scoff; makes me wonder which ideas we hold near and dear that will be considered just so much crap later.

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  6. Re:Of course by Milo+Fungus · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Slashdot has totally changed my browsing habits since I started reading it a few years ago. I find that I don't "get out" as much as I used to and just surf around. When in doubt, reload the Slashdot main page and see if there's a new story. Nothing? Hmmm... Maybe there's a new comment in a story I've already read. Or maybe I'll read the comment thread under that boring story that I don't care about after all...

    Lately I've been browsing around at Wikipedia more. Just find an interesting page and open up a few internal links into new tabs as you go. It's easy to read half a dozen or more pages in one sitting, and you always learn something cool and interesting.

    Of course, I learned about Wikipedia from a Slashdot article...