1990. Box art for Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight on the original Nintendo Entertainment System.
In the words of the Angry Video Game Nerd: “How do you make a game, named off of two other games, and not have anything to do with either of them?”
November 1975. Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact magazine cover illustrated by Vincent Di Fate
April 28, 1963. “U.S. Space Hardware—Today and Tomorrow,” article in New York Mirror Magazine by Fred Dickenson
1964. Beyond the Spectrum by Martin Thomas, in which alien invaders from the planet Nihil attack 30th century Earth. 1967 paperback cover illust. by Victor Kalin
August 1934. Modern Mechanix and Inventions magazine cover featuring a “radio tube train.”
Remarkable today for its absurdity, however in any era we probably can’t help but imagine the future in terms of combining familiar workaday technology (trains) with magical new ones (radio, at that time).
As long as it was utopian to speak about “pure spirit,” we could praise spiritual values. Today, pure spirit is on its way.
Vilem Flusser, Artforum, October 1987
February 1959. Illustration by Phil Berry for Amazing Stories 33, no. 2 featuring “The World Burners” short story by Paul Fairman
c 1980. Book cover illustration by Colin Hay for the Panther Science Fiction edition of The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin (orig. pub. 1971)
Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Perspective for the 70s (RCA, 1969).
1969. Perspective for the 70s, a promotional record album produced by Westinghouse Electric Corporation to promote the company’s ideas for power plants in the newly dawning decade
Bob Layzell, from Robert Sheckley’s “Futuropolis,” 1978
1978. Illustration by Bob Layzell featured in Futuropolis by Robert Sheckley, a showcase of cities imagined in sci-fi and fantasy
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Buck Rogers Sonic Ray 25th Century Signal Light, (1949)
1949. Advertisement for toy ray gun from the Buck Rogers series of comics, movies, TV, and radio programs
Source: vintagetoyadvertisements.com
February 1958. Nebula Science Fiction magazine.
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1959 Cadillac Cyclone concept car (1964 revised version)
Source: automobilemag.com
1959. The Cyclone, a Cadillac concept car designed by Harley Earl, featuring a collision avoidance system with radar sensors
November–December 1954. Commander Battle and the Atomic Sub comic book, issue #3
December 1956. Nebula Science Fiction magazine
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Telemetry Systems.
Telemetry is an automated communications process by which measurements and other data are collected at remote or inaccessible points and transmitted to receiving equipment for monitoring. The word is derived from Greek roots: tele = remote, and metron = measure.
Source: Wikiwand
1994. A.P.E.X. motion picture, directed by Phillip J. Roth, featuring time-traveling scientists and killer robots.
November 1971. Popular Science magazine feature on Personal Rapid Transit monorail
1981. Mazda MX-81 Aria concept car, designed by the Bertone group
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1953. Manta Ray concept car, created by aircraft designers Glen Hire and Vernon Antoine in a home workshop
1978. Album art from Automatic Lover by Dee D. Jackson