I'm skirting the line with the 'reto-futurism' here, but this video, which was posted on YouTube in 2006, feels like it's much older (early to mid 90's? -- if you know, please let me know). The video itself is actually pretty cool -- I love the music and cheesy sound effects.
Showing posts with label yesterday's tomorrow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label yesterday's tomorrow. Show all posts
June 21, 2009
Yesterday's tomorrow: "Nanotechnology - Age of Convergence"
I'm skirting the line with the 'reto-futurism' here, but this video, which was posted on YouTube in 2006, feels like it's much older (early to mid 90's? -- if you know, please let me know). The video itself is actually pretty cool -- I love the music and cheesy sound effects.
June 18, 2009
May 29, 2009
Yesterday's tomorrow: Clothing of the year 2000
Full of 1930's futurist awesomeness: "Apparently in AD 2000 we shall be having a hair raising time!" Brother, you have no idea.
May 26, 2009
Yesterday's tomorrow: Just imagine...1980!
Just Imagine (1930), directed by David Butler, was a humorous science-fiction movie musical presented by Fox Film Corporation to cheer up audiences distressed by the Great Depression.
Set in the year 1980, it depicted the conventional expectations of technological progress associated with that 'distant future' date. A large dirigible hangar was used to house a huge, detailed, large-scale model of a modern city, complete with suspension bridges between towering skyscrapers, multi-lane elevated roadways, and a flock of flying machines flitting above the city as another level of traffic. To modern viewers, the city resembles an implausibly exaggerated version of 1930s New York City.
The plot involves a man from 1930 who is experimentally revived from the dead (hmmm, interestingly transhumanistic) by a team of physicians who have no interest whatsoever in him after he awakens (an obvious precursor to Woody Allen's Sleeper (1973)). Two young men who have observed the process as guests of one of the nurses kindly take him in hand and show him (and the audience) the wonders of 1980. He also gets to travel to Mars, which turns out to be inhabited by friendly humans, each of whom has an evil, otherwise-identical twin.
May 10, 2009
April 26, 2009
New feature: Yesterday's Tomorrow
I'm going to implement a new feature here on Sentient Developments called "Yesterday's Tomorrow." I have a great affinity for historical futurist visions and aesthetics. Look for me to regularly post photos and videos that capture futurist sensibilities of our past.Image discovered on Posthuman Blues.
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