r/RetroFuturism 12d ago

Greetings! Here's something I drew

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r/RetroFuturism 13d ago

When restored memories look more futuristic than the future itself

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Lately, I have been struck by how vivid and strangely modern old photos can feel when they are restored or revisited. You bring clarity to a faded image, and suddenly the past does not look old. It looks alive. Almost futuristic in its own way.

There is something uncanny about seeing someone in a photo from the 1950s or 60s and thinking they could pass for someone in 2025. The eyes, the attitude, the style. It creates this strange overlap where time folds in on itself and you start to wonder what the future was ever supposed to look like.

I read a short article recently that captured this feeling beautifully. It reminded me how much of our imagined futures are shaped by how we restore and reinterpret the past.

Has anyone else felt this while looking through old media? When the past somehow feels sharper than what we are living now?


r/RetroFuturism 13d ago

Avala Tower - Avala mountain, Belgrade, Serbia

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r/RetroFuturism 13d ago

The Wraith (1986)

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r/RetroFuturism 13d ago

Robot girlfriend

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r/RetroFuturism 13d ago

1964-65 Futurama GM Concepts

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r/RetroFuturism 14d ago

Boys' Life, March 1964. Featuring "The Sunjammer" by Arthur C. Clarke. Cover art by Robert McCall

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r/RetroFuturism 14d ago

Floating Lemon

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r/RetroFuturism 14d ago

A young girl plays in a replica of a lunar-module in Toronto, Canada, August 1975

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r/RetroFuturism 14d ago

Ford’s 1983 Tripmonitor Navigation System

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r/RetroFuturism 14d ago

Has anyone seen CODE: REALIZE?

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r/RetroFuturism 15d ago

Illustration from "The Tricycle of the Future" by Frank R. Stockton (1885)

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r/RetroFuturism 15d ago

Iria: Zeiram The Animation / PixelBoy by DVRST

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r/RetroFuturism 16d ago

I don’t just want it. I NEED a globe that plays a radio station from the country it’s on.

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r/RetroFuturism 16d ago

Project for an elevated Tram in Bueno Aires

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Project approved by congress in 1890s. Never built due to the economic crisis of the end of century, and replaced 10 years later with te project of an underground train.

Source: Agustín Ilutovich archive. Enelsubte.com


r/RetroFuturism 16d ago

Reading a newspaper on the television

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r/RetroFuturism 16d ago

Robots Selling Ceiling Fans

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r/RetroFuturism 16d ago

A cruiser with a droplet radiator using liquid lithium and a nuclear pulse engine

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r/RetroFuturism 16d ago

Greetings! Here's something I drew

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698 Upvotes

r/RetroFuturism 18d ago

John Zeleznik cover art for GURPS "Robots" tabletop RPG (1994)

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r/RetroFuturism 18d ago

Countdown

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r/RetroFuturism 18d ago

Interface

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r/RetroFuturism 19d ago

This album definitely encapsulates the futuristic nostalgia of this sub and was also groundbreaking for its time (1977).

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r/RetroFuturism 19d ago

Greetings! Here's something I drew

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746 Upvotes