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io9 - Jun 23, 2008
It’s Monday, October 5, 2000. Mars has the Q-Bomb and some politician is blathering on about tax cuts. Instead of smell-o-vision, the newspaper carries smell-o-ads (and sex-o-ads, too). There’s a four-hour work day …
Also tagged: the jetsons, office of the future
io9 - Jun 20, 2008
While it looks like a pick-up scene from the future, this photo from 1952 was meant to show the precision with which robotic arms, created to work on atomic material, operated. But you just know that after getting her …
Also tagged: robot sex, you come here often
io9 - Jun 19, 2008
Less a flying car than a driving airplane, the “Airphibian” was a plane/auto hybrid designed and built by Robert Fulton. In 1950, it became the first “roadable aircraft” to be certified by the FAA. Top speeds were 55 …
Also tagged: flying cars, airphibian
io9 - Jun 19, 2008
A lost second volume of the early science fiction novella called The Great Romance has been discovered in New Zealand, and it reveals early thoughts of crazy alien sex, plus airlocks, space shuttles and space suits …
Also tagged: books, classics, the great romance, scifi books
io9 - Jun 17, 2008
In keeping with last week’s posts, here’s a bit of Mars-related pop culture. It’s the incomparable Gene Vincent singing about how he’d like to get you (if you’re a girl, that is) on a spaceship to the Red Planet. He …
Also tagged: gene vincent, marsiana, spaceship to mars
io9 - Jun 16, 2008
Beginning June 26, io9ers located in and around New York City can view an artifact of retro-futurist history when the only surviving example of Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion car goes on display at the Whitney Museum as …
Also tagged: h g wells, buckminster fuller, dymaxion
io9 - Jun 13, 2008
Earlier this week we showed you the wonderful “cosmic soap opera” from Disney’s “Mars and Beyond” television show from 1957. This much more serious clip shows what a future expedition to Mars might look like. The …
Also tagged: mars, outer space, space travel, werner von braun, ernst stuhlinger
io9 - Jun 12, 2008
Zip-off sleeves, glass gowns, aluminum dresses, and towering hairdos to give Amy Winehouse a run for her money: they're what women will be wearing in the far future of 2000—at least according to this newsreel report …
Also tagged: jumpsuits, future fashion
io9 - Jun 11, 2008
On December 4, 1957, the Disneyland TV show broadcast “Mars and Beyond,” a 53-minute exploration of the Red Planet’s history and future, as well as its impact on pop culture. A nerdy scientist, a hot secretary with a …
Also tagged: mars, outer space, pulp
io9 - May 30, 2008
It took a crew of 200 technicians to build a miniature model of a futuristic New York City for " Just Imagine , a motion picture fantasy" released in November, 1930. According to Modern Mechanix, the city of the future …
Also tagged: movies, hollywood, new york city, futurism, just imagine