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While this video is mostly concerned with the 1930s predictions of ladies fashion in AD 2000, I found the most fascinating part to be the Man of the Future: “He’ll be fitted with a telephone, a radio, and containers for coins, keys, and candies for cuties.” Was the prediction of the future that impressively accurate, [...]

We’re just a bunch of dorks here at Fullsteam. Dorks who are fascinated with failed and often inane predictions of the future. I think this interest in past predictions stems from our own idealized vision of the tavern: a gathering space more concerned with the here-and-now than what tomorrow might bring. Historically, the American tavern [...]