Negative Space: futurism
- The Future from 1981
-
One of the hallmarks of good science fiction is not just envisioning future technologies, but also the effects of the technology on everyday life. In November, 1981, Wayne Green looked into the usefulness of the secretary in the age of the personal computer.
- Future Snark
-
Why does the past get the future wrong? More specifically, why do expert predictions always seem to be “hand your lives over to technocrats or we’ll all die?”
- Half of the US will have videotex terminals by 2000
- How can a think tank be so right and so wrong at the same time?
- Omni’s Jobs of the Future from 1985
-
What Omni’s popular science writers saw as the jobs of tomorrow thirty years ago.
- Our Cybernetic Future 1945: As We May Blog
-
As we go back in time for insight into the future, actual hardware recedes and the relationship between man and hardware comes to the fore. In 1945, Vannevar Bush laid out a vision of the Internet and desktop computers filled with the knowledge of mankind. And he recognized that this would not merely change how quickly we think, but how we think.
- Our Cybernetic Future 1972: Man and Machine
-
In 1972, John G. Kemeny envisioned a future where man and computer engaged in a two-way dialogue. It was a future where individual citizens and consumers were neither slaves nor resources to be mined.
- Who wants a driverless car?
-
Anybody who can’t parallel park, or who has to juggle work, kids, and maintenance, or who sometimes needs a car and sometimes a truck, that’s who. The question isn’t who wants to lose the steering wheel. It’s who wants to gain fully-configurable travel devices.
More Information
- Tex Avery’s World of Tomorrow
-
“These are all 4 of Tex Avery’s cartoons predicting the future, these include: House of Tomorrow; Car of Tomorrow; TV of Tomorrow; The Farm of Tomorrow.”
