Matt Novak, who runs the excellent retrofuturism blog Paleo-Future, has a fantastic essay up at MungBeing exploring the lost ideals of futurism that were lost with the ubiquitousness of sarcasm and ...

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The idea is to present the future as imagined at a time in the past. Plenty of other shows and movies have mined retro-futurism for inspiration, presenting alternate histories and stylized futures.

Showrunner Noah Hawley leaned into the ‘Alien’ franchise’s retro-futurism when making ‘Alien: Earth,’ adding Peter Pan mythology to the mix. The series is set in 2120, two years before the events of ...

The 1988 anime Akira motorcycle is probably still the coolest two-wheeled pop culture phenomenon nearly 40 years on. But what if it came to life? Japanese design firm Ichiban has created a sleek, ...

Colorado's Zaiser Motors says it's working on an electric motorcycle capable of a whopping 300 miles of range per charge. The Electrocycle would also offer 2WD, removable batteries for indoor charging ...

Matt Novak started the Paleo-Future blog in 2007. Since then, he has become an expert on past visions of the future, and has amassed an enormous library of media related to the study of retro-futurism ...

Most watches try to blend in. The Bulova Computron does the opposite. It’s a throwback to late-’70s, early-’80s sci-fi styling with an LED display that feels like it belongs in an old arcade, in the ...

An electronic cyberart trend has been bobbing in and out of the video game psyche for the last two decades, and it’s seeing an upswing with modern independent game developers. Games like MirrorMoon EP ...

Industrial designer Jin Le predicts that in five years, people will be sick of ultra-tiny mobile phones and will want to return to the rotary-dial designs of yesteryear. So she cooked up this design, ...

Looking beyond her typical practice of furniture design, Jialun Xiong has created her first-ever restaurant interior for a Chinese-inspired eatery in an industrial district of Los Angeles. Named 19 ...