Happy New Year

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Happy New Year to you all. 2020 is upon us, and hopefully this year the promises of the 21st Century will finally dawn. Enough with the dystopian non-21st Century hellhole years we've been saddled with for the last two decades. I want my flying cars, rocket ship vacations, conveyor belt sidewalks and form fitting future fashions clinging to 21st Century babes and I want them now!

Regardless, onward and upward is my motto. May this year be even more prosperous and better than the last.

A future that never was

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In the 1940s Bohn Aluminum and Brass ran a series of ads featuring their vision of the future. They featured a lot of big machines, presumably made out of aluminum and brass, but they missed the mark pretty wildly in their futuristic predictions.

Source Ubersuper which has more of Bohn's ads.

What might have been

Ah, the grand future we were promised...

 

These pictures of our glorious future, and more that follow after the jump,

are from Black and WTF which has an extremely eclectic collection of old pictures.

By the way, I wonder why the woman is holding a chicken in the first picture?