Can we have a thread devoted to "retro-future": also known as what people in the past thought the future would be like?
I already have a folder from /k/ which I could share but I'd like some less militaristic examples as well.
Are there any predictions of the future that are really old? I mean actual attempts to predict or describe the future that date back 500, 1000, 2000 years.
![1900-postcards-undersea-tourist-boats[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/njxe58l.jpg "1900-postcards-undersea-tourist-boats[1].jpg")
>>1416727
Love this shit.
The best era for this type of thing was the early 1900's, just before WWI. Everyone knows about the brewing nationalism, but there was also the flip side - people who foresaw an interconnected, high-tech future, communicating by radio waves in Esperanto and reading Verne on your zeppelin ride to your relatives across the Atlantic. In all honesty, the future they foresaw was in my opinion far closer to the future of today than the today pictured by the 50's or the 80's folks.
Will be dumping.
![villemard-electric-train[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/mVDIXQX.jpg "villemard-electric-train[1].jpg")
>>1416767
Depicted here are what I imagine early ideas on high-speed trains and video communication, both of which are common today but are quite a bit more polished.
![800px-An-express-station-of-the-underground-railway[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/T92ZAIg.jpg "800px-An-express-station-of-the-underground-railway[1].jpg")
>>1416779
Subways
![1901+Feb+11+Akron+Daily+Democrat+-+Akron+OH+paleofuture[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/mf3AQPQ.jpg "1901+Feb+11+Akron+Daily+Democrat+-+Akron+OH+paleofuture[1].jpg")
>>1416795
The author assumes that the United States, then will have acquired the whole of the western hemisphere attaining a population of 300,000,000; that the President will be from Montreal, U.S.A.
>will have acquired the whole of the western hemisphere
What a dream
>>1416809
Almost correct.
I love retro futurism
>>1416809
The Latin Americans just ended up moving into the US instead. How ironic.
>>1416767
>Dover Boys in the background pedaling some kind of tandem boatcycle.
Top keks
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>>1417846
nice catch
>>1416727
here's a 1960s prediction of the future in the year 1999, it's incredibly accurate about the use of computers in the future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW0UeU4lhYU
Near future, post-apocalypse and far future as seen from the 1930s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atwfWEKz00U
>>1418006
>it's 90 degrees outside and sunny
>it 500 degrees inside your house
Good idea.
Literary retro-futurism: read E. M. Forster's "The Machine Stops".
>>1418863
That story was so fucking gay
>>1418881
Well it was written by E. M. Forster...
>>1416756
Book of Revelation
>>1416727
What is the giant hamster wheel for?
>>1418856
Wearable electronics are pretty popular now.
>>1416756
There was a book on the 21st century written in the 1700s.
>>1419094
For radioactive hamsters.
>>1421640
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>>1422162
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