July 08, 2004

Tales of Future Past The tomorrows of yesterday.
posted by Plegmund 20 years ago
  • Oh man, I saw this a while ago and wasted an entire afternoon looking through this thing. Awesome, awesome retro future stuff.
  • Absolutely wonderful.
  • Grrumble. Grrowl. Grrr. Not "tales". This isn't about text or story, it's about the fronts of old SF and Amazing Tales magazines. Their covers. Also features pictures of models like the Mole. Interesting find, I suppose, for those who prefer covers to content. But no "tales". Nor tails. Yes, I have strong opinions about this. Yes, I consider it misleading, and Davidbloodyzondy, wotever it is, can literally and figuratively cram it. Still want a story. Grrr. Woz promised "tales". Snarl. [Oh migod, now Wendell will know how to get my goat!!!]
  • Sorry, bees. Is this any use?
  • Why, that's bee-eautiful, Plegmund! *pulls banana from under jacket, hands it to Plegmund*
  • Fantastic link.
  • I'm having weird feelings of deja-vu. Not just the post, but the comments. Not a bad site; pity about the horizontal scroll in my browser. Now I want my upside-down icecream-cone house.
  • Great link. Interesting how people could really dream back in the early-mid 20th century. I can't put my finger on what happened. Have we dreamed all there is to dream?
  • We pay people to do it for us, rolypolyman.
  • Nothing ages faster than the future.
  • rolypolyman asks a great question: where are the futurists of our day? Where are our optimistic projections of tomorrow? Are we all too cynical and jaded to bother? And it's not just the early-to-mid 20 century; people have speculated on the future for hundreds of years. Of course, the Bushies may be right and the end of history at hand, in which case we needn't bother speculating. But I still want my rocket pack and flying car.
  • Margaret Atwood lets to call Oryx and Crake "speculative fiction", but it is her picture of tomorrow. So, cynical, jaded, pessimistic yes, but still bothering to talk about it.