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Jetsons
I downloaded an episode of the first season of The Jetsons yesterday. It occurred to me that there is nothing more paleo-futuristic than the pneumatic tubes used to transport the characters. I can’t wait until the world of transportation catches up to 1960s bank teller technology. According to the Wikipedia post I linked to, (and … Continued
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Astuter Computer Revue
I don’t remember much about Communicore at EPCOT in Walt Disney World. It closed in 1993 and was converted into the half-rate Innoventions Pavillion. However, I did find a little gem of a song that was featured in the Communicore exhibit for just a few short years. The song is called The Computer Song and … Continued
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The Most Well-Documented Lives in History
Today we have two men that are either geniuses or completely crazy. While that fine line is usually difficult to discern in any worthwhile endeavor it is especially difficult in the context of futurism. We begin with Richard Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983), perhaps most famous for inventing the geodesic dome. What may be most compelling about … Continued
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Chicago’s Grant Park: Fighting for the Future
I finally finished the PBS American Experience documentary, “Chicago – City of the Century” and found plenty to talk about in the paleo-future department. One particularly interesting element of the doc was the creation of Grant Park. Apparently plans were set in place to use the park for commercial purposes after the Great Fire of … Continued
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The Future was Built on Steel
Apparently U.S. Steel never saw Dustin Hoffman in 1967’s The Graduate. According to this U.S. Steel commercial from the 1970s, the future will be built on steel rather than plastic. The future will also be built piece by piece in beige factories to make beige buildings. Disney’s Contemporary Resort in Walt Disney World, Orlando is … Continued
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Hello and Welcome
I first came across the word “Paleo-Future” in a Flickr group of the same name. However, the topic first sparked my interest when I visited Walt Disney World’s EPCOT Center, (now Epcot), and realized that Disney’s version of the future was based upon what they thought the future would look like in the 1980s. As … Continued
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