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"Top of the Super, next to the stars!"









Saturday evening post, October 6, 1951:

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... This is a November 20, 1943 advertisement. Ad shows a mans arm at some controls, near a window, overlooking farming country. The farmer of the future can till his acres by remote control. directing his mechanized equipment as easily as tuning a radio. In excellent condition.



Tomorrow`s evergrowing gardens


Pre-colored cotton, 1946-05-20
"Cotton will grow in colors on this plantation becuse of Men Who Plan beyond Tomorrow"


1947-05-12 Future atomic nuclear power plant
Deserts will bloom through atomic power

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An Army Magazine article from 1956 predicted what the soldier of future would look like. The author, Lt. Col. Robert R. Rigg, prophesized that these advancements – from night vision goggles, to helicopter warfare, to drone strikes – would come after 1974. While he was technically correct, many came later than he foresaw.




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Today :


XQ-58A Valkyrie

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Самое высокое здание в странах Прибалтики ( ...is the tallest building in the Baltic states, 149 m ). Подражая зарубежным авторам, напишу что сей офисный центр футуристический потому, что круглый ). В духе фантастических фильмов 70-х . В «Дознании пилота Пиркса» отлично смотрелся бы.

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Airport, A.Radebaugh



Rocket plane




St. Louis Post-Dispatch, August 27, 1944

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Envisioned as a strategic nuclear weapon delivery system for the Navy, the SeaMaster was eclipsed by the Polaris submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM). And the program was cancelled on 21 August 1959.

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Japan:

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Illustrated postcard of the House of Tomorrow, designed by architect George Fred Keck. You knew it was the house of tomorrow because it had ten sides. ))




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PS. Пользуясь случаем сообщу, что комьюнити опять пролезло в пятёрку самых читаемых (5-е). Так и тянет написать: «Ну теперь можно и позагорать» )).

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Porsche 917/10 – August 1972

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The movie is about "finite nonlinears," robots that closely resemble human beings but are even more perfect than humans. They are intended to eventually \\\



«Inquest of Pilot Pirx» was awarded the "Golden Asteroid" Big Prize at the International Cinema Festival at Trieste 1979.

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" This modern house was specially designed with a view to the future "

Saturday Evening Post, March 6, 1943



Miracle Home – Saturday Evening Post, February 27, 1943



Waterloo [IA] Courier, June 14, 1943



Detroit Free Press, August 22, 1943

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The Futuristic Superhighways of 1964 Had Glow-in-the-Dark Roads:



1958 by The Chicago Tribune :

194X

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The Riga Radio and TV Tower in Riga, Latvia is the tallest (368.5 m) tower in the European Union.





It is planned to re-open in 2023 when there will again be a restaurant and the opening of the tower's bomb shelter will open to the public and a 500 kg Foucault pendulum will be installed.

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1942, Debbie Reynolds in General Electric ad




This ad appeared in July 1942. The headline was the clunky "Men Who Think of Tomorrow Appreciate Seagram's Foresight!" The futuristic detail soared above the page: an illustration of a sleek flying wing flying over clouds.
" The superplane of the future - shooting through the stratosphere at a thousand miles per hour. You'll breakfast in New York and lunch in London ... or jump from Boston to Borneo between dawn and dusk. And all because there are men today who think and plan for Tomorrow. "


American Locomotive. Two Trains of Thought
Life Magazine. February 16, 1942.


The radio of the future is... a television?
This 1942 ad for Admiral radios featured modernist designer Samuel A. Marx and his vision of a "radio of the future" :

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Plato's Caribbean Atlantis, Roc'io Esp'in Pi~nar

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Forecasting by Bohn in Nation’s Business. April 1943.
Artwork by George W. Walker, an American industrial and automotive designer based in Detroit. His most notable work was the original Ford Thunderbird.




Our drunken videophonic future )), ad of 1943
Perfected Television and radio telephone combined:



1943 rendering of a personal helicopter by Alex S. Tremulis.
This concept for a high-speed personal helicopter was an early expression of what would become in the years immediately after World War II an extremely popular vision of the future. To many observers, the helicopter seemed to promise wings for city dwellers who might land atop their apartments or office buildings.

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... amazing buildings in Brasilia, designed by Oscar Niemeyer

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