Transportation
Maps of the Future
A 1989 prediction about portable GPS devices was right on the money
A More Efficient Airline Meal Tray
A recent innovation in the design of the airline meal tray has resulted in massive savings. Maybe the next innovation should focus on the actual food
The Flying Ambulance of Tomorrow
In the 1920s, a French inventor devised an ingenious way to provide emergency medical assistance
The World Will Be Wonderful In The Year 2000!
The secret formula for predicting a fantastical yet credible future
1970s Children Draw Robot Presidents and Nuclear Apocalypse
Kids predict the darndest things
Is the U.S. Out of Love with Cutting-Edge Transit?
It feels like it. But there is plenty of innovative thinking shaping the future of public transportation. You just need to look elsewhere to find it
The Super Bowl’s Love Affair With Jetpacks
Thankfully, this Super Bowl spectacle never had a wardrobe malfunction
Sunday Funnies Blast Off Into the Space Age
When Dr. Athelstan Spilhaus met President Kennedy in 1962, JFK told him, "The only science I ever learned was from your comic strip."
Trade Your Trouble for a Bubble
Sightseeing across the country in an atomic-powered "pleasure ball"
Moving Sidewalks Before The Jetsons
The public's fascination with the concept of "movable pavement" extends back more than 130 years
Mobsters Tremble Before the Crime-Fighting, Red Flying Gondola
Science-fiction pioneer Hugo Gernsback predicted that, as long as police officers were stuck on terra firma, criminals always would have the edge
The Fanciful, Chocolate-Filled World of 2012
In 1912, the French chocolate company Lombart printed a series of six collectible cards envisioning daily life one hundred years in the future
Giant Automatic Highway Builders of the Future
Radebaugh's vision of a road-creating machine may not have been a figment of just his imagination- a Disney-produced television program had a similar idea
Zipping from San Francisco to Oakland in 5 Minutes
An inventor's plans for traveling inside a giant bullet would have made a trip across the Bay a fast one
Arthur Radebaugh’s Shiny Happy Future
For five years, a popular comic strip gave us a preview of life in Suburbatopia
Burbank’s Aerial Monorail of the Future
A bold vision for a propeller-driven train never quite got off the ground
1955 Imagines Travel in 1965
The Ford Motor Company envisioned a Batmobile in every garage.
Thomas Edison’s Brief Stint As A Homemaker
The famous inventor envisioned a future of inexpensive, prefabricated concrete homes
The Boston Globe of 1900 Imagines the Year 2000
A utopian vision of Boston promises no slums, no traffic jams, no late mail deliveries and, best of all, night baseball games
When We All Commute by Airplane
If commuting to work via personal aeroplane was the future, how might the design of cities change to accommodate them?
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