Dog-eared copies of ancient science magazines could easily make for a blog unto themselves. Absurd reverse-anachronisms illustrated by comic-book illustrations or photographs of stern scientists, they project an era in love with science (unlike our own) but lacking in any sense of skepticism whatsoever.
We know the big things that we never got; thanks to that modern insistence on relentless skepticism and faux-irony, they've all been reduced to pessimistic jokes: flying cars, habitable space stations and space colonies, 3D television, and silver jumpsuits. But what about predictions that actually came true, but no-one wanted them when they did? Dick Tracy's videophone watch springs to mind. TechEBlog has a roundup of a few dreadful failures, and one item that took only 50 years to become a commercial reality.
Feature: Strange Inventions You Never Knew About [TechEBlog]
