Retrofuturism: The Future That Never Came | Sleepcore

Sleepcore is back with more retrofuturism, looking at media and the future that never came!

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[lagoliri]

"The rearview mirror is actually a television screen." They got close enough with that one.

[mmmms]

Retro people : think about future
Future people : back to the retro

[julesgrapel]

Imagine living in a time where the future actually seemed bright...

[arthurzettel]

45 years ago I had dreams and aspirations of a bright future. I never would have thought people would be so shamefully violent and corrupt in the 21st Century.

[vincentcastor]

When I was a kid I couldn’t wait to see what the future will bring. Now I want to go back to simplicity of living.

[SuperUniverse]

The optimism was so bright in the 1920s and 1940s : Retro Futurism
Now the 2020s is more Cyberpunk pessimism.

[ejseabury]

When I was a kid in the 1970s, I was convinced life in our future would look like this and we’d have an opportunity to work and live on starships, like on the U.S.S. Enterprise from “Star Trek”.

[bighuge]

These visions of the future look to be done in earnest. Imagine how their creators would react if it were possible to show them the actual future. I think they would be severely disappointed and shocked that so much of their present was still visible instead of the total reconstruction they envisioned.

[eaglevision]

“People will be regarded more as Statistics than actual people”
Everything that young man said, is sadly, for the most part...Accurate.

[pbegley]

When I was a small child, late 60s - early 70s, this was the future I was expecting while I watched the Apollo missions on tv. Instead we got clown world meets cyberpunk dystopia.

[whm]

The Jetsons and the Flintstones were both futuristic and prehistoric...in their own ways.

[JamesJLaRue]

I love the art in these. And I love how they foresaw many things yet not others, like self driving cars...that use punch cards.

[Ryanstuff]

I love these old future films. The one thing they always got wrong was the massive amount of energy that some of the concepts would take to operate (cost/benefit) and how fat people would get by taking simple moving and walking out of the equation.

[billyburr]

Back then a husband could work one job and support an entire family, buying a nice house in just 15 years. Now the husband cannot find a job that pays a living wage, and even if he could, it would take two people working full time to pay for a house over 30 years, and that is 'if' they can find one that affordable.

[ivanj.conway]

There seemed to be no place for nature in this version of the future.

[corndog]

“Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.”

― George Orwell, 1984

[Timbo]

They never predicted that you would watch a half hour video and have to watch 9 adverts. Nobody would have believed that madness!

[SteelHorseRider]

many things were better in the past - even the future...

[CrispimDaniel]

"people will be seen more like statistics..." that kid is a real visionary!

[LostSoulsmusic]

I am blown away by the kid who said he doesn't think there will be nuclear warfare but that there will be a problem with automation and that people will be out of jobs. Also that he doesn't know what can be done about the population problem. That kid is incredibly insightful for that time and age. Wonder where he is now.