It all started with the 1939 worlds Fair with its theme of ‘the world of tomorrow’
The Fair’s influence on science fiction (and sci-fi parody), industrial, commercial, and urban design, and marketing resonates into the present.
I‘ve always been fascinated by the the concept and I absolutely love the graphic representation of it that permeated the 40s and especially the 50s. I have several books and magazines from the period which explore this.
Here is an example, probably my favourite cover. The Home of tomorrow!
Life Magazine 17 January 1944
Fifty years into the future, envisioned in the sixties.
Title: The Bluebird-Proteus CN7 is a gas turbine-powered vehicle that was driven by Donald Campbell and achieved the world land speed record on Lake Eyre in Australia on 17 July 1964.
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. . . from Dreams of Space blog
I look at this and I suddenly hear Antennae Two from The Summer of God's Piano ...
Concept for a spherical house, designed by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux in 1789
A study of one of the famous visionary project of the history of the architecture.
Illustration by Don Heck, story by Stan Lee
VINCENT DI FATE
Bolo
Acrylic
Vincent Di Fate, cover art for Bolo: The Annals of the Dinochrome Brigade by Keith Laumer (Berkley Medallion, 1977).
Colonel Bleep - WAR IN ROBOT LAND
photo © Felix Torkar
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Centro Roberto Garza Sada de Arte
Tadao Ando
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Ilinden / Makedonium – a monument dedicated to the fighters and revolutionaries who participated in the Ilinden uprising of 1903, as well as soldiers-partisans of the Macedonia National Liberation Struggle 1941-1944.
Kruševo, North Macedonia
Built in 1974
Architect: Iskra Grabuloska
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Hotel “Karabakh” (“Tourist”) Baku, Azerbaijan – 1974
Architect: V. Shulgin
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The visor reminds me of the corona ...
The getup is that THX-1138 sort of elegance.
It's in fact a more elegant version of the getup Ed Bassmaster is wearing in recent clip ...
Even in the world of tomorrow gender specific stereotypes abound 😐
1941
Les Choux, Créteil – Paris, France
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3000hp Mercedes "Weltrekordwagen" from 1939.
Robert McCall
Casa para el poema del ángulo recto – Vilches, Chile
© Cristobal Palma
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Eastern Bloc
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Great album cover. Best part is that the music is so un-futuristic , more like the sound of yesterday
A Visual History Of The Future (courtesy Government Office for Science) ...
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/360814/14-814-future-cities-visual-history.pdf
Drive-Up Hotel by Arthur Radebaugh, 1953
Illustration by Arthur Radebaugh
Look, it's got Tomorrow in the title.......the Subs early singles and debut studio album, 'Another Kind of Blues' are classics.
These guys are partying like it’s 1999
21st century!(if only John Foxx could’ve had a song with that title!)
You’re a sucker for a double helicopter I see😉😎
Used to know who painted this, but ... have forgotten. Anyone know?
Living in a little slice of Battenberg cake
It's like a GMO biscuit.
It's a great look. It does remind me of a segmented food item, like an orange
Wait Monsanto? As in Agent Orange , DDT, genetically engineered crops etc?
Monsanto House of the Future
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Monsanto House of the Future was an attraction at Disneyland's Tomorrowland in Anaheim, California, USA, from 1957 to 1967. It offered a tour of a futuristic home, and was intended to demonstrate the versatility of modern plastics.
Sponsored by Monsanto Company, the House of the Future was made possible by Monsanto, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Walt Disney Imagineering. With this project, Monsanto wanted to demonstrate plastics' versatility as a high-quality, engineered material The design team for this innovative structure included MIT architecture faculty Richard Hamilton and Marvin Goody (founders of Goody Clancy) and MIT civil engineering faculty Albert G. H. Dietz, Frank J. Heger, Jr. (a founder of Simpson Gumpertz & Heger) and Frederick J. McGarry. The MIT faculty worked with the Engineering Department of Monsanto's Plastics Division, including R. P. Whittier and M. F. Gigliotti. The house, featuring four symmetric wings cantilevered off a central core, was fabricated with glass-reinforced plastics.
The attraction offered a tour of a home of the future, featuring household appliances such as microwave ovens, which eventually became commonplace. The house saw over 435,000 visitors within the first six weeks of opening, and ultimately saw over 20 million visitors before being closed.
The house closed in 1967. The building was so sturdy that when demolition crews failed to demolish the house using wrecking balls, torches, chainsaws and jackhammers, the building was ultimately demolished using choker chains to crush it into smaller parts. The plastic structure was so strong that the half-inch steel bolts used to mount it to its foundation broke before the structure itself did.
The reinforced concrete foundation was never removed, and remains in its original location, now the Pixie Hollow, where it has been painted green and is used as a planter.
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I got to tour through the House Of The Future when I was a kid, either 1964 or 1965.
Remember really liking it, in spite of it not being a ride.
Another bit of history, long gone.
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Warehouse of tomorrow, 1937
https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/obviouswar/