Making More Time for Work?
Monday, November 3rd, 2008From “The Onion”: A humorous look at the practical applications of multi-dimensional travel…
CINCINATTI—According to a report released Monday by the U.S. Department of Labor, skyrocketing consumer prices coupled with stagnant wages have forced many Americans to work a fourth shift in another dimension in order to make ends meet.
Read the entire story at The Onion
They promised us flying cars!
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
I really thought they’d be here by now but alas, flying cars are still a future dream.
Here are a few nifty examples of the flying car as it has been imagined by various different people…
See what Glen Hiemstra from futurist.com has to say about the current status of the flying car. If memory serves me correctly, my brother actually [...]
Yesterday’s Highway of Tomorrow
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008Here is a sampling of Walt Disney’s vision of what transportation in the future might look like. This clip is excerpted from a 1958 “Disneyland” TV Show episode entitled “Magic Highway USA”.
Although most of the innovations imagined here have not come to pass, it’s interesting to see that some have! Note the navigation system and rear [...]
Fashions in Foil
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008I am endlessly amused by what yesteryear imagined that the world of tomorrow would look like. Why do you suppose they thought we’d be wearing so much aluminum foil in the future - especially in the form of jumpsuits? Elevated radiation levels perhaps?
With that I give you an assortment of funky and fabulous futuristic fashions [...]
Apocalyptic Fun for Everyone!
Saturday, March 8th, 2008What’s 7 feet long, seats 2 children and has enough nuclear payload to to take out most of the Eastern Seaboard?
A. It’s the Polaris Nuclear Sub! Get yours today!
This reminds me of an earlier post I made about another great vintage doomsday toy; The Atomic Energy Lab.
What 1958 thought 2008 would look like…
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008On my page entitled “The Mission” I describe some of the influences in my childhood that fired up my own love of science. I was, and still am, a huge fan of Walt Disney and his ever optimistic vision of humankind’s future and how science will serve to make our lives better and better.
It’s a [...]
Where oh where have all the really cool toys gone?
Saturday, February 9th, 2008I think this Atomic Energy Lab kit from the 1950’s may have contained an actual vial of 235U (for educational purposes only).
Doomsday weapons must have been the order of the day in the 1950’s - Check out this “death on the seven seas” toy from the same era. What do you mean war isn’t fun?!
In reality [...]
