Blog discovery of the day:
Paleo-Future, a blog devoted to yesteryear's predictions for the future, from
Buckminster Fuller's visionary contraptions to
tree-crushing, highway-building robot juggernauts, to
flying cars,
robot housemaids,
free love (a feature of several 1970s-vintage predictions of life in a few decades' time), and
vast oceans of leisure time, all tagged by category and decade.
Don't expect to find any dystopias, mass die-offs or post-apocalyptic wastelands here, though;
the fragments featured in Paleo-Futurism all have an upbeat tone, often to the point of naïveté, informed by a faith in the march of technological progress which seems charmingly quaint today. What was in the water supply in the mid-20th century anyway?