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Past Future Proto

revolutuck wrote 7 months ago: I’m beginning research for an upcoming project. What I’m find intrest is how our past lo … more →

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Site of the Week: Paleo-Future

eksith wrote 7 months ago: And here we’ve once again ventured into imagination land in a futile attempt at imagining the … more →

Tags: Steampunk, technology, Society, Computers, Site of the week, Science, History, Retro, Future

Christmas Fun With Electronic Robots2 comments

invisibleagent wrote 1 year ago: I found this “Popular Electronics” magazine from December 1958 on Paleo-Future (One of m … more →

Tags: Astronauts, Robots, Space Age, antiques, Popular Electronics, Guy Robot, Artist

Yeah, but what about the jetpacks?

James Downey wrote 1 year ago: An excellent Three Panel Soul strip. Another travelogue later. Jim Downey … more →

Tags: Tech, Predictions, Science Fiction, Society, Augmented Reality, Science, Humor, Comics

The Future of Halloween

Frank Spencer wrote 1 year ago: Just a quickie for fun… what is the future of Halloween? This article from PRNewsNow  points t … more →

Tags: Trends, Trend Implications, Halloween, Día de los Muertos

A little paleo-future fun.2 comments

James Downey wrote 1 year ago: Of the apocalypse variety: via MeFi, the BBC has released all the information pertaining to plans fr … more →

Tags: Science Fiction, Art, Society, Government, Architecture, metafilter, Star Trek, "Gene Roddenberry", Failure

Coincidence.

James Downey wrote 1 year ago: Last night I watched a movie made before I was born.  By coincidence, the timing was perfectly in sy … more →

Tags: Tech, Predictions, Science Fiction, Space, Art, Movies, Society, Heinlein, Google

Aurora and the Future of Paleo Future1 comment

condonm wrote 1 year ago: So I took a moment today during my night class to take a peak at Adaptive Path & Mozilla’s … more →

Tags: web design, Future, Aurora, Mozilla, Tomrrow

OK, so it isn't exactly The Rocketeer . . .

James Downey wrote 1 year ago: . . . but the announcement that there is a functional personal flying device to be revealed today is … more →

Tags: General Musings, Tech, Predictions, Science Fiction, Movies, NYT, Science, Comics, Travel

Wasn't that a plot point . . . ?

James Downey wrote 1 year ago: I just came across an interesting idea from Michael Benson in the Washington Post last weekend: Send … more →

Tags: Science Fiction, Space, NASA, Movies, Jupiter, Science, arthur c. clarke, ISS

What a concept!

James Downey wrote 1 year ago: How would you like to get 235 mpg with your car? It’s only a concept car, but it seems that a … more →

Tags: Tech, Predictions, Science Fiction, Movies, Society, wired

I wonder which model Nexus this is?

James Downey wrote 1 year ago: Well, someone sure has been having some fun: The company AI ROBOTICS was founded 2 years ago by Etie … more →

Tags: Tech, Predictions, Science Fiction, Art, Artificial Intelligence, Movies, Society, Expert Systems, Philip K. Dick

Just sayin'.2 comments

James Downey wrote 1 year ago: Via PZ, a delightful Paleo-future T-shirt site: Retropolis Transit Authority The Retropolis Transit … more →

Tags: Science Fiction, Space, Art, Pharyngula, Humor, PZ Myers

Here comes the Fourth Reich.

James Downey wrote 1 year ago: Via the Bad Astronomer: Towards the end of World War II the staff of SS officer Hans Kammler made a … more →

Tags: Science Fiction, Space, Movies, YouTube, Phil Plait, Bad Astronomy, Man Conquers Space

Morphing expectations.

James Downey wrote 1 year ago: It is nothing but complete fantasy at this point, and will likely be tomorrow’s paleo-future, … more →

Tags: Writing Stuff, Tech, Predictions, Science Fiction, Space, Movies, Society, metafilter, Science

Laser arcade of the future comes true1 comment

Patrick Murphy wrote 1 year ago: The eye-catching photo below was published in 1985 to illustrate what future arcade games might be l … more →

Tags: Läser, Maze, Game, Funovation, Laser Images, Ivan Dryer, Entrapment, IAAPA, Catherine Zeta-Jones

Architecture as shorthand.2 comments

James Downey wrote 1 year ago: What do you visualize when I say “Hobbit”? How about “Blade Runner”? Chances … more →

Tags: Writing Stuff, Tech, Predictions, Science Fiction, Space, Art, boingboing, Movies, Society

Power to the People!2 comments

James Downey wrote 2 years ago: I’m fairly sure the original seed of the idea for Communion of Dreams came to me back during m … more →

Tags: General Musings, Writing Stuff, Tech, Predictions, Science Fiction, Society, Stephen Hawking, flu, metafilter

Man Conquers Space.

James Downey wrote 2 years ago: It is said that it was a single photograph taken by one of Columbia’s crew during Christmas 19 … more →

Tags: Writing Stuff, Tech, Predictions, Science Fiction, Space, Movies, Jupiter, Science, Phil Plait


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