17 Pictures Showing How The Past Saw The Future Playing Out

Technology has progress sop much, so quickly, that you don’t have to go very far back in our history to see movies and art were way off.

They saw the future in different, fantastic, and unrecognizable ways. They were way off.

Here are 17 pictures that show just how wild they thought times would get.

1. Television Newspaper – some day you may be able to receive the front page of your morning Newspaper this way.

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2. ‘Ship’s Cat’ by Keith Spangle

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3. We really messed up

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4. 1981 vision of suburbia after there’s no more room left for suburbs.

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5. 1940s vision of food delivery future.

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7. An artists depiction of the future, painted in 1930.

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8. Self driving cars of the future, circa 1960.

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9. Artoo Deco

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10. The future of phones, 1956

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11. James Bond receives a “text” via his smartwatch in The Spy Who Loved Me.

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12. Fashions of 1950, as predicted on the cover of Life Magazine in 1914

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13. 1969 Japanese vision of the future classroom, the odd part is that included small robots to rap students on the head when misbehaving

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14. 1970s futuristic concept for jetliner air travel

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15. A Fifties navigation system. Don’t know who imagined this but I love it!

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16. Futuristic Road Trip with the Family (Bruce McCall)

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