Retrofuture Things
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The future was yesterday.
Cool pics of cool retro-ish stuff. Moved here form !spacetech because more and more of my stuff wasn't space stuff.
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Home Desk for Future of Education - Closer Than We Think, December, 1960 [Historical Concept, AI Reconstruction]
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Classroom automation may foreshadow an end to schoolhouses. Lessons would be televised to students "going to school" at home, where their work would be done and transmitted to a control center for correction and grading.
Dr. Donald E. P. Smith of the University of Michigan believes teaching machines will appear in all classrooms before long.
A typical one projects questions in one panel, then, after an answer is written in a second panel, the right solution appears in still a third.
Such machines are now intended for classrooms, but application of similar principles to educational TV would make schoolhouses a thing of the past.
Illustration from article:
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21st Century Car - The Magazine Of Fantasy And Science Fiction, c. 1960 [Historical Concept, AI Reconstruction]
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Romance in a Twenty-First Century Used-Car Lot by Robert F Young. In this story, everybody's expected to wear their own personal automobile at all times.
To go without is to be shunned as a "nudist." Of course!
Original illustration:
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Not too far off. We are getting closer to that. Hopefully.
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Created during Sid Mead’s early work for the United States Steel Corporation, U.S. Steel Projections Book.
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The Ford Gyron debuted at the Detroit Motor Show in 1961 and is among one of many concept cars that Syd mead created.
It had two wheels, so it could be argued that it was more motorcycle than car, but its two passengers would sit side-by-side. When stationary, two legs would extend either side to hold it upright.
When moving, the Gyron used a gyroscope to maintain balance.
Illustration before prototype was made:
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The May/June 1969 issue of Bell Laboratories' Record included a look back at the technology that had been developed by the research lab since 1956 in its quest to make a practical videophone.
One of the biggest challenges was getting a videophone to work within existing infrastructure. The telephone companies had already laid out telephone lines to homes and offices across the U.S.
There was no desire to roll out any new infrastructure, so the goal was to use those existing lines and supply each home and exchange with new hardware for sending and receiving video messages in real time.
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Cover art by Dean Ellis for a 1979 edition of the book, "Hospital Station."
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Designed by John Denison-Hunt, for British electronics manufacturer Pye. This 1961 TV prototype was supposed to represent the TV of 1971, but the early 1970s was actually the beginning of the end for that particular TV brand, as Sony and Hitachi entered the British market with lower cost sets.
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More propellers is always a good thing!
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For the story, The Towers of Titan, by Ben Bova. A team of Earth scientists investigate mysterious ancient machines discovered on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon.
Read it for free at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72339
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That'll help ya relax after a hard day at future work.
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An electric car imagined by Arthur Radebaugh in the March 29, 1959 edition of the Sunday comic strip, "Closer Than We Think."
I'm digging this design! We need cars to look like this!
Original illustration:
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Facing the challenge of shooting birds over water can be tricky. But the Victorians didn’t let that stop them. Just load your gun and jump into this! Sure, just using a boat would have made more sense, but it wouldn't have been as cool!
Repost from other the sub because it's so badass. Original illustration:
