Comic Fury Webcomic Hosting - How people in the past envisaged the future...

So I recently found this.

There's plenty of hilarious futuristic films made in the 60s/70s, that Im hoping some people will link.. >u> And things like the Jetsons. I hereby request more amusing pictures of this nature~

And if you have your own vision of the future.. please share it. *U*

How about the videophone from 2001: A Space Odessey?

OK the technology looks a little odd, but he's basically using a public call version of Skype. And he pays $1.70 for it with a Credit Card :O

don't forget the post apocalyptic world they thought we'd live in.


but actually a machinegun bike sounds pretty cool.

Funny thing about that machine gun motorcycle is that it was an actual 1900 contemporary design and not in the least ways futuristic.



1900 welcome to the futuristic world of 1916... really scary kids.

I'm actually pissed that we don't have underwater fish racing.

What about the Jetsons, man? That was all supposed to take place in 2062.



it's god damn 2012 and I still don't have a robot maid, :'c or fish racing.

Ooh good thread. Comic-wise at least, in 1929 their vision of Buck Rogers' 400 year future included post-apocalyptic gangs of girls living in forests, flying flappers, ray guns, and significant amounts of racism!

Ooh also fashion! Apparently it used to be commonly thought that space humans would want to have hoops on their heads:

Vogue, 1939:


Boston, 1956 ("moon bridal hat"):


And they were getting ready for space beach wars in Miami in 1952:


The future was exciting!

I've always loved looking at that kind of stuff, fascinating how they thought we'd being flying around in hover cars and have robot butlers by now! Back to the Future II predicted that we'd have hover boards by now.

And this was how women were supposed to dress on Moonbase... in 1980



And a 1982 car?

Well they weren't too far off with that does kind of look like a DeLorean.

at least we have three years left for the hover board..

DAMMIT SCIENTISTS!!! YOU BETTER INVENT THAT SOON!!

I like this thread!

In Star Trek (1967), the future history described a global genetic war between supermen and regular people in the late 1990s. For some odd reason, normal people won, and the surviving supermen slept in cryogenic deep freeze until the 23rd century. Matter transporters are supposed to be invented in the 22nd century (some physicists think it will really be possible within a 100 years) and faster-than-light interstellar travel begins in the 21st.

Genetic supermen display superior cleavage in the future (and mullets).


Star Trek featured electronic pads, mobile phones and floppy disks.



Perhaps the most ridiculous thing was men in minidresses.

It's like an awesome steampunk future!

Too bad television the computer ruined all that, and turned us into mindless automatons.

In the past we envisaged a future of unlimited leisure time, thanks to the marvels of computerisation. They neglected to mention we'd all be jobless and broke.

The future was a scam.

I rather like the idea that maybe we would have solved our problems of disease, war, and poverty in the future and living in some type of working utopia.

You know, like Anthem.

Considering the dress pictured is precisely like the normal male attire in most civilizations through history (the tunic) and to include those hardcore guys of the Roman legion, it's only ridiculous to anyone in Europe and North America during the late 20th century. Any other time and it wouldn't even get a shoulder shrug (eastern hemisphere) or exhale of breath (western hemisphere)



Under the armor it's that ridiculous mini dress only ridiculous to a very specific place and time though and nearly universal clothing in every other...

I've been watching a lot of Twilight Zone lately and there's, of course, a lot of predictions of what the future would be like back then. An episode I watched tonight even pin-pointed the year 2000 as being a time where people were brainwashed and made to get a full plastic-surgery makeover to look like everyone else. That means that would've happened about twelve years ago.

Oh, and everyone was wearing jumpsuits and belts that made their belly flap poke out. It was pretty embarassing.

Thing about the future as depicted in Twilight Zone everything was done to re-use props left over from Forbidden Planet so lots of the stuff tends to look the same from story to story.

Twilight Zone also had episodes where we landed on Mars in 1974, a nuclear war in 1968, and hover cars with gold being obsolete in the 2010's.

And remember on the classic TV series Lost in Space the Jupiter 2 was launched in 1997

And I cannot believe nobody remembers what happened in 1999!

There's a movie I watched not that long ago called "A Boy and His Dog" it sounds a lot like a family movie, but it's defintly not! It's about the post-apocalyptic future (Set after World War 4) Anyway here's the trailer (although it doesn't show much and doesn't really give you much of an idea on what it's about, it's probably best to just watch the film) But if you're fan of the Fallout games then it's worth a watch. ;)

I was there. It was a long walk back from Alpha Moon base. And everyone knows the founder of International Rescue was behind getting the moon back into place.



At least Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet were set in the mid 21st century so the stuff we don't have yet we probably will by then.