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1927 Magazine Looks at Metropolis, “A Movie Based On Science”
Illustration in Science and Invention magazine, explaining the special effects for Metropolis (1927) Last week Geeta Dayal over at Wired published portions of a very cool 32-page program for the 1927...
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The Robot Hall of Fame: Vote Rosey 2012
Screenshot from The Jetsons episode “Rosey’s Boyfriend” (originally aired November 11, 1962) Americans are gearing up for the presidential election this coming November, but many people are sadly...
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My Robot Helper of Tomorrow
The helper robot brings the child of the future something to drink in bed (1981) When I was a kid growing up in the late 1980s and early ’90s there were only two things that I was certain of when it...
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50 Years of the Jetsons: Why The Show Still Matters
The Jetsons title slate from 1962 It was 50 years ago this coming Sunday that the Jetson family first jetpacked their way into American homes. The show lasted just one season (24 episodes) after its...
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Recapping “The Jetsons”: Episode 01 – Rosey the Robot
Jane Jetson working out her strained fingers in the premiere episode of “The Jetsons” (1962) This is the first in a 24-part series looking at every episode of “The Jetsons” TV show from the original...
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A New Great Depression and Ladies on the Moon: 1970s Middle School Kids Look...
People in a space colony of the future (by Rick Guidice, 1977) The February 26, 1977 edition of the Herald-Star in Steubenville, Ohio published dozens of predictions for the year 2000 made by the...
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And the Winner Is: 2012 Inductees to the Robot Hall of Fame
Screenshot of the robot WALL-E from the 2008 Disney/Pixar animated film (Disney) The 2012 inductees to the Robot Hall of Fame at Carnegie Mellon have been announced. And sadly, Rosey the robot didn’t...
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Recapping ‘The Jetsons’: Episode 08 – Rosey’s Boyfriend
This is the eighth in a 24-part series looking at every episode of “The Jetsons” TV show from the original 1962-63 season. The personal humanoid robotic assistant (or robot maid; robot butler;...
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3D-TV, Automated Cooking and Robot Housemaids: Walter Cronkite Tours the Home...
Walter Cronkite gives a tour of the home office of 2001 on his show The 21st Century (1967) Legendary news anchor Walter Cronkite’s regular half-hour CBS documentary program “The 21st Century” was a...
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Robot Vanna, Trashy Presidents and Steak as Health Food: Samsung Sells Tomorrow
Portion of a 1988 Samsung ad in Smithsonian magazine Advertisers love to use futurism as a way to position their products as forward-thinking. Often, that connection to futurism comes with a healthy...
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