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A 1935 concept showing a centrifugal force machine designed to reverse aging.
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Air travel over Paris in the year 2000, as imagined in 1882 by artist Albert Robida.
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A look at what shopping in the future might look like, from 1965.
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An American mother and daughter return home from shopping in a futuristic spaceship, circa 1950s.
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A late 1950s illustration of a self-driving car.
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A sleek futuristic limousine with butterfly doors.
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A network of underground tube trains beneath a city, by artist Klaus Bürgle, 1969.
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A painting from around 1950 showing how people imagined the future would look.
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A vision of what beach vacations might be like in the future.
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The “House of Tomorrow” as featured in Mechanix Illustrated, circa 1950.
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Mail delivery by rocket, illustrated by Frank Tinsley in 1957.
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An inflatable lunar base concept by Shigeru Komatsuzaki, circa 1970s.
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The “Hoppicopter,” a one-person vehicle for low-cost air travel, by Frank Tinsley, 1950.
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A futuristic landscape of skyscrapers with winding roads and moving sidewalks.
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Elevated trains cross the skies among towering skyscrapers.
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Astronauts explore the surface of another planet in this 1954 artwork by Fred Freeman.
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Space food concepts from George Pal’s sci-fi film Conquest of Space (1956).
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An amphibious, futuristic RV vehicle from 1947.
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A look inside a glass house of the future.
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The “half-mile-high” pleasure tower, with a restaurant and 500-car garage, envisioned in 1933.
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“Voice bombs,” balloon-suspended tape recorders dropping propaganda messages, by Frank Tinsley, 1951.
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Women model futuristic fashion for the year 2000 during Engineering Week, circa 1965.
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An illustration from World of Tomorrow — School, Work and Play (1981), showing future technology in everyday life.
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A scene from the 2001 film CQ, which features a retro 1960s sci-fi subplot.
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NASA’s vision of a space colony that would look like Earth, complete with a giant central engine.
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These space cities were designed to include houses, greenery, roads, and rivers like cities on Earth.
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A 1969 concept of a nuclear-proof city beneath Manhattan.
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An early 1950s concept for a television newspaper.
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A futuristic city concept from the 1970s.
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An indoor futuristic home design from the 1960s.
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