How people of the past imagined the future (16 photos)

People living in a certain period of time are always interested to know what awaits them in the future and what it will be like.





Some go to fortune-tellers and make a deal on the cards, others just humbly waiting for the future to come by itself, while others do predictions and invent outlandish gizmos that they think will to be popular with future generations and contemporaries. We we invite you to simultaneously find yourself in the past and in the future and enjoy retrofuturistic photos dedicated to technological utopia.

Aesthetic 1950s pistol



Space couple from the attraction "Tomorrowland" in Disneyland, 1960





Doctor Who cyber controller on a smoke break, 1968



Coin-operated televisions in the waiting room at the Los Angeles bus station, 1969



Model of a futuristic nuclear supertrain, created for the series "Supertrain", which failed miserably, 1979



Robot vacuum cleaner from the past



Swimming pool 1969



Bicycle of the future, 1946



Microwave oven from the 60s



Flying platform VZ-1 Pawnee, developed by an American aviation company in 1955



1930s table fan



Personal gyrobike



This 14" TV from 2000 was sold only in Japan and had a built-in Sega Dreamcast console.



Hugo Gernsback showing off his television glasses in 1963 for Life magazine



SANAE IV is an active South African Antarctic research base built in 1997.