Tales of the future past

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http://www.davidszondy.com/future/futurepast.htm
A few years ago, people talked about building a bridge to the 21st century. Now that we're there, the phrase seems as odd as building a causeway to five o'clock. As Midnight brought in the year 2000 (or 2001 if you prefer), something odd began to sink in. For people of my generation, who had lived through the tarnished promises of the Atomic Age, the Space Age, the Computer Age, and the This That and Another Age, the year 2001 was a gateway. We waited twenty, thirty, forty years and some longer to pass though that gate into a time when spaceships the size of ocean liners plied between colonised planets, where cities were colourful collections of brand new towers without a single old building or blade of grass, where people wore jumpsuits like they were the togas of a technocratic Rome, where robots were our powerful and obedient servants, and where jetpacks were as common as galoshes.
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Awesome page, with stories and such of what people in the past though that the future would be like. Anything from how we would live to what the war machines would look like :)
 
I know that place for quite sometime, I think it was already talked about here. Still it's always good to see it, even placed it on my Blogroll.
 
Absolutely fascinating. I have to say, I'd love to see a retro-future city that looks like some of the romantic pulp designs. It's hardly practical, but the vast buildings so far up in the air, and the apartment complex/megabridges spanning them. It would just be so fascinating from a visual perspective as well as making for interesting story concepts.

I really dug "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" too. To bad it didn't start a wave of '30s retro-future.
 
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