Paleofuture.com

Paleofuture
Web address http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/
Type of site
 Blog
Available in English
Owner Matt Novak
Created by Matt Novak
Current status Active

Paleofuture (also Paleo-Future) is a blog that documents historical ideas, visions, and predictions about the future.[1][2][3][4][5] The blog and its owner Matt Novak have become an authority on the subject[6] and have been cited in many other publications.[3][4][5][7][8] Paleofuture organizes its material by decade starting at 1880.[5] The blog was formerly found at paleo-future.blogspot.com and paleofuture.com.[1][3][4][5] Some terms that have been used in relation to this blog are paleo-futurism,[7] and retro futurism.[8]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bairstow, Jeffrey (2007-12-01). "Back to the future, again". Laser Focus World (PennWell Publishing Corp). Retrieved 2009-03-04. I came across a truly remarkable blog, paleo-future.blogspot.com, compiled by 24-year-old Mark Novak, of Minneapolis. This is an absolutely fascinating collection of articles, books, postcards, film clips, photos, videos, and other ephemera about predictions for the future
  2. ↑ Kendall, Nigel (2008-05-26). "The web watcher: paleofuture.com; videogamer.com; www.log.tv; US Life on Mars". TimesOnline. Times Newspapers. Retrieved 2009-03-04. At www.paleofuture.com a small team of dedicated geniuses picks through mankind's dreams for the future, decade by decade, right back to lithographs of the flying men of the future from the 1890s.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "A Look At The Year 2000… From 1900". Utne Reader. Ogden Publications. 2007-12-11. Retrieved 2009-03-04. Proof of the past's broken promises can be found at Paleo-Future, a blog devoted to antiquated visions of what today could have looked like
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Soupcoff, Marni (2007-10-10). "Click Here". National Post. National Post Company. Retrieved 2009-03-04. At the Paleo-Future Web site, you will find a large catalogue of such past predictions, ranging from an 1882 lithograph depicting people going to the opera, pictured below, in the year 2000 (yes, they're travelling in flying cars) and a 1986 news report about how robots would soon be taking over most aspects of retail shopping
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Gomes, Lee (2007-10-08). "TV ads tell us computers no longer pals". Rocky Mountain News. Retrieved 2009-03-04. The best place to look at these videos is at PaleoFuture (paleo-future.blogspot.com), which allows an amazing look back at visions of the future, starting in the 1880s
  6. ↑ "WHAT THE FUTURE DIDN'T BRING ROBOT SERVANTS, FLIGHT ON A WHIM, MEALS IN PILLS -- THEIR FATE IS HISTORY TO A ST. PAUL BLOGGER". St. Paul Pioneer Press. 2008-05-05. Retrieved 2009-03-04. Matt Novak has seen a vision of the future. A lot of visions. That's because in the past year or so, the 24-year-old St. Paul resident has turned himself into a sort of accidental expert on the paleo-future: depictions of the future from the past. He collects and comments on yesterday's predictions of tomorrow on his blog, www.paleofuture.com, which has become a sort of online museum of a promised world of jet packs, meals in a pill and sex with robots
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Postmodern paleo-futurism". Boston Globe. 2007-03-29. Retrieved 2009-03-04. Over at the excellent blog Paleo-Future today, Matt asks: "When did a certain level of self-awareness about futurism outweigh the sincere, optimistic brand of futurism?"
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Newitz, Annalee (2007-10-15). "Retro Futurism: New York City Aerial Walkways That Could Have Been". io9. Gawker Media. Retrieved 2009-03-04. Matt at Paleo-Future points out that Leigh's paintings are currently on display at New York's Skyscraper Museum

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