Categories: Technology

18 Futuristic Machines Imagined In 1940

I have long been wondering if we, humanity, have gotten better at predicting the future thanks to all the experience we have gained through the millions of years we’ve existed. I mean, in just the last hundred years or so we have gone from primitive technology to advanced microchip technology, and while considering that 100 years is only a fraction of the time we have been on this earth, it’s quite an extraordinary feat. Just 70 years ago we still had a lot of imagination, but we didn’t really predict it thoroughly it seems. We tended to look into the future and pull back things that we still haven’t been able to achieve. Maybe it was the positivity or longing for the future that kept us dreaming up insane, yet plausible machines back then.

A series of images, or propaganda images rather, have surfaced lately thanks to Retronaut. They contain 18 machines that a few brilliant minds back in the ’40s thought we would see in a foreseeable future. They are nothing less than fantastic if you ask me. Sure, they are a little bit out there, but still most of them have been realized in one way or another. Maybe they haven’t become the pinnacle of successful inventions, but they have still been incorporated into our daily lives in one way or another, depending on what profession and lifestyle you have.

These “posters” come from the innovation design company Bohn which specialized in concepts of the future. Maybe it was a way to help the development and the imaginations of that particular era’s innovators, or perhaps it was just a way to make the future seem a little bit more bright and exciting. I am stunned by the scale of all of these “inventions,” and it seems even back then the concept and perception of things was that “bigger is better.” However, time has proven that we went in the total opposite direction, and now we continuously try to make things smaller. Life is truly hard to predict sometimes, right?

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Via: [UFunk – French]

Richard Darell

Richard Darell is the founder and CEO of Bit Rebels, a multifaceted online news outlet that reports daily on the latest developments in technology, social media, design and everything geek. Today this media entity welcomes more than 3.5 million unique visitors per month and is considered the go-to place for people in constant motion. As an Internet entrepreneur, he is dedicated to constantly trying to develop new ways to bring content faster and closer to the end user in a more streamlined way. His excitement for statistics has allowed him to further develop systems that continuously produce accurate and fast-paced analytics to better optimize the approach by which Bit Rebels presents news and content. His graphic design background has proven to be an important tool when designing new systems and features for Bit Rebels since the development of solid and stable code depends entirely on their structure and implemented procedures. Richard currently resides in Stockholm, Sweden and directs the Bit Rebels offices in both Stockholm and Atlanta. You can reach Richard at richard@bitrebels.com

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