tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17404525887954728752024-03-13T07:31:38.578-07:00Tales of Future PastThe blog of the award-winning Tales of Future Past siteUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger132125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740452588795472875.post-31649304006003664222016-09-13T22:41:00.002-07:002016-09-13T22:41:44.170-07:00Future Living<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://davidszondy.com/futurepast/future-living.html">Future Living is up</a>.</div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740452588795472875.post-88017964739881941062016-09-04T21:26:00.002-07:002016-09-04T21:26:38.762-07:00Future CityA new Tales of Future Past section is up – <a href="http://davidszondy.com/futurepast/future-city.html">Future City</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740452588795472875.post-4258812029535422642016-08-24T15:08:00.000-07:002016-08-24T15:08:03.532-07:00Tales of Future Past v2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Just to let you know what I'm doing on <a href="http://davidszondy.com/futurepast/index.html">Tales of Future Past</a>, this will be a very long project because I have hundreds of pages to transfer, edit, and sometimes completely rewrite. I started the first version in 2004 and as it grew a lot of copy became horribly dated or technology has advanced to the point where I can do a lot more than I could originally.<br />
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At the moment, only one section is up, but others will follow as I complete and test them. When a new one goes live, I'll make announcements here as well as on Facebook and Twitter.
As to the old site, that's been removed as a menace to navigation,Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740452588795472875.post-85703761725586861012016-08-23T17:41:00.001-07:002016-08-23T17:41:17.935-07:00And we're back<div style="text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://davidszondy.com/futurepast/index.html">Tales of Future Past</a> is back</div>
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Okay, I haven't done much of anything with this site since 2012 and what with the main Tales of Future Past site in limbo due to a formatting problem that's left it unreadable, I've decided to try an experiment. <br />
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I've been experimenting with templates in hopes of repairing the old site, but I haven't anything like the time to do so. Therefore, I'm going to try to repost some of the site in blog form and see if that's any more effective.<br />
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It's just an experiment, but what's to lose?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740452588795472875.post-74502325357346943842012-07-05T19:04:00.002-07:002012-07-05T19:04:58.855-07:00At the crossroads<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://davidszondy.blogspot.com/2012/07/coming-to-crossroads.html">Changes to this blog.</a></td></tr>
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<i><a href="http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=15277"><span id="goog_724324671"></span><span id="goog_724324672"></span>The Unwanted Blog</a></i> features this cutaway of a nuclear rocket engine from 1962Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740452588795472875.post-38306761135946463742012-06-19T00:00:00.000-07:002012-06-19T00:00:13.176-07:00Dough boys on the Moon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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An now, the <a href="http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=14709">US Army's 1959 design for a lunar lander</a>.<br />
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It may not have gone to the Moon, but it did look more rockety than the LEM.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740452588795472875.post-37948623351031928742012-06-18T00:00:00.000-07:002012-06-18T00:00:01.216-07:00The Future of Food<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><a href="http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-06/archive-gallery-future-food">Popular Science</a></i> trolls its archives to look at the future of food. Some of the items are interesting, such a the one illustrated here that talks about converting gases directly into food, others are embarassing, as in howlers like this:<br />
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Then there's the opening bit about urban farming that both in the modern and archived bit forgets that it wasn't that long ago that livestock <i>was</i> raised in the city, which is why the only ones who do so today are hobbyists.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740452588795472875.post-4453477488391323152012-06-15T00:00:00.000-07:002012-06-15T00:09:07.825-07:00Groovy computers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><a href="http://my-retrospace.blogspot.com/2012/06/when-work-was-groovy-7.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Retrospace+%28Retrospace%29">Retrospace</a></i> has a stunning retrospective on mainframe computers in the days when computers were practically architecture instead of things you tuck in your pocket.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740452588795472875.post-7670101650479296832012-06-14T23:10:00.000-07:002012-06-14T23:10:00.431-07:00The jobs of 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Please don't mention the "peace analysts:, though. The same people who thought "diversity managers" were a good idea might be listening.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740452588795472875.post-32586952051553088962012-06-13T00:00:00.000-07:002012-06-13T00:00:02.775-07:00Things to Come<div style="text-align: center;">
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<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/05/18/nikola-tesla-wasnt-god-and-thomas-edison-wasnt-the-devil/">Forbes</a> has some neck. I <a href="http://davidszondy.com/future/tesla/tesla.htm">posed the same thesis</a> and have suffered years of stick from True believers because of it.<br />
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Keep your heads down, lads.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740452588795472875.post-88673372270247920702012-06-11T00:00:00.000-07:002012-06-11T00:00:00.111-07:00Electronic Bed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Look at this electronic bed of 1945 courtesy of <a href="http://davidszondy.com/future/Gernsback/gernsback.htm">Hugo Gernsback</a> and rescued from obscurity by <a href="http://www.flixya.com/blog/2954541/Bad-Electronics-Dreams-the-Future-Grotesques-of-Hugo-Gernsback-1945">JF Ptak Science Books LLC</a>. <br />
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Among it's technological gadgets is a book rest that <i>pulls out</i>! <br />
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There's no end to this age of scientific wonders?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740452588795472875.post-34507655920399523692012-06-08T00:00:00.000-07:002012-06-08T00:00:05.261-07:00Elektro revisited<div style="text-align: center;">
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Tremble as the "mightiest of all robots" pops a balloon.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740452588795472875.post-52508591209978622102012-06-07T00:00:00.000-07:002012-06-13T23:39:47.860-07:00Monsanto's Home of the Future<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Monsanto was very proud of its <a href="http://davidszondy.com/future/Living/plastic.htm">plastic home</a>. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://blog.modernmechanix.com/why-dont-we-build-flying-ram-fighters/">We need them and we need them now!</a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-size: medium; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><a href="http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/2012/05/predictions-for-educational-tv-in-the-1930s/">Paleofuture </a></i><span style="font-size: small; text-align: -webkit-auto;">looks at the Future Past of schooling via the talking aquarium.</span> </td></tr>
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<i><br /></i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740452588795472875.post-3851562960197744932012-06-04T00:00:00.000-07:002012-06-04T00:00:02.625-07:00Flying Drainpipe: 1957<div style="text-align: center;">
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The Gold Key comic book <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Family_Robinson">Space Family Robinson</a></i> not trumped the television series <i>Lost in Space</i> by introducing the concept of the Swiss Family Robinson years before Irwin Allen, it also let the readers know what the well-dressed 21st century teenager would be wearing.<br />
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Lots of ski pants, apparently.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740452588795472875.post-54681958762473530782012-05-30T12:15:00.003-07:002012-05-30T12:15:54.161-07:00Always something, isn't there?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A wonder machine of farming. So, why does it take four men to operate it?</td></tr>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740452588795472875.post-91458120944287676472012-05-29T00:00:00.002-07:002012-05-29T00:00:02.600-07:00Life in the year 2001<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740452588795472875.post-40541148297325828732012-05-29T00:00:00.001-07:002012-05-29T00:00:14.608-07:00Apollo's arms<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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In the early 1970s, NASA designer Caldwell Johnson came up with this idea for using surplus Apollo equipment by<a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/05/apollo-soyuz-shuttle-manipulator-demo-1971-1972/"> equipping the CSMs with robot arms</a>.<br />
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This study was cancelled; partly due to budget constraints, but mainly because it looked scary beyond all reason.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0