Tales Of Future Past
from the Futurama-polooza dept
Here's an interesting review that covers tales of future past -- a website dedicated to collecting images of distant worlds and futures, as predicted by old magazines and science fiction. And there's also RetroFuture to help you remember flying cars and smell-o-vision. Ah, yes, remember when computers were predicted to beat us all at chess? Oh wait.
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Reflection of their times
Star Trek episodes of the 1960s portray women of the future as submissive sex dolls. Sci-fi from that era foresaw a future in which we had advanced spaceships by 2000, but still had computers with ferrite-ring cores and punch cards. In essence, space was portrayed as a Wild West inhabited by nonwhite or communist aliens who needed to be corrected. Half human/half alien subjects are portrayed as the Tragic Mullatos of the future.
No doubt, science fiction written today will likely appear embarassing to future generations, be they the thinly disguised Muslim terrorists, the free-market fanaticism, or the prevailing sensibilities of our times that require a rigid social adherence to praise music, movies, and travelling.
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