Paleofuture

A website about the history of the future. Check us out on Bluesky, at least until Musk sells Twitter.

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The Summer Intern Who Ate His Lunch on a Nuclear Bomb in 1955 https://t.co/BHnfV57E3a

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This 1930s Prediction For the Wind-Powered Greenhouses of the Arctic Actually Became a Reality https://t.co/hQygezy322

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'White Collar Robots' Were Coming For Your Job in 1954 https://t.co/iliep7HKta

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Glass Banks Were the Future of Security in 1931 https://t.co/2bxttFBT0x

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Why Americans Were Disappointed in the Cars Produced Immediately After World War II https://t.co/DP2WcTqXmC

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The History of Child Slavery in California and Why I'm Having Trouble Sleeping These Days https://t.co/sRq7kZzjr9

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CCTV and Shipping Via Missile: 7 Ideas For the Future From a 1950s Tech Company https://t.co/jh7PjG75WQ

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This 'Television Newspaper' Was Predicted Decades Before TV Would Go Mainstream https://t.co/Gy5Bo78hwU

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The Bizarre Oppenheimer Movie From Ayn Rand That Never Got Made https://t.co/UjK9mPc1Du

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When a Simple Blue Light Was the Hot New Anaesthetic in Dentistry https://t.co/jGMA4NdvQO

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The Curious Case of President Harding's Homeopathic Doctor and the Ku Klux Klan https://t.co/XuhnL4gUI7

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This Weather Nerd Had a Dire Prediction For July 4, 2023 https://t.co/G4KRq3tXsS

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This 'Voice in a Box' Warned Pedestrians About Jaywalking in 1936 https://t.co/eW74DSaOkk

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The 1940s Promised Helicopters In Every American's Backyard https://t.co/P9aONFSDGO

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The Flat-Screen TV of Tomorrow in Disneyland's Monsanto House of the Future https://t.co/XD101MGJty

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You Can't Blame the 21st Century for the 'Media Frenzy' Around the Titanic Sub https://t.co/lRcW67zpJJ

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Pink For Boys and Blue For Girls: Gendered Colors Were Completely Different 100 Years Ago https://t.co/cVMbeP5ALn

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Moviegoers Were Tired of Seeing 'The Same Ideas Used Over and Over Again' In 1910 https://t.co/eyS9Vsedcs

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Radio Was Going to Make Everyone a Wealthy and Well-Educated Globe Trotter https://t.co/8KISp2kIH3

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Chevy's Astro III Concept Car From 1969 Was a Three-Wheeled Wonder https://t.co/Uv4w38mLl8