来自“复古未来”的预测要么成功，要么失败
It’s crazy to think both how short and infinitely long a century is. You see, Motorola’s DynaTAC, the first cell phone, was launched in 1984 for a price of $3,995. And today, nobody can imagine their life without touch-screen mobiles with integrated Leica cameras and AI face recognition systems that come at much less than Motorola’s initial price.
一个世纪又短又无限长，想想都很疯狂。你看，摩托罗拉的DynaTAC是1984年推出的第一款手机，售价为3995美元。今天，没有人能想象没有集成了徕卡相机和人工智能人脸识别系统的触摸屏手机的生活，这些手机的价格比摩托罗拉的初始价格低得多。
So imagine how differently people back then perceived the advancements in technology that looked both incredible and life-changing. And they were. But technology, and the world we live in, escalates so quickly that it surpasses our best forecasts for what the future holds.
所以，想象一下，当时的人们对科技进步的看法是多么不同，这些科技看起来既不可思议，又能改变生活。它们确实如此。但是，技术和我们生活的世界发展得如此之快，以至于它已经超过了我们对未来的最佳预测。
And this time, we are talking a look at retro-futuristic examples created in the previous century that give us a glimpse into weird and wonderful dreams of the human mind.
这一次，我们来看看上个世纪创造的复古未来主义的例子，让我们一瞥人类头脑中怪异而美妙的梦想。
#1 An Artists Depiction Of The Future, Painted In 1930
一幅艺术家描绘未来的画，画于1930年
#2 A Fifties Navigation System. Don't Know Who Imagined This But I Love It!
五十年代的导航系统。不知道是谁想出来的，但我喜欢!
#3 1940s Vision Of Food Delivery Future
20世纪40年代食品配送的未来愿景
#4 Television Newspaper - Some Day You May Be Able To Receive The Front Page Of Your Morning Newspaper This Way
电视报纸——有一天你可以用这种方式收到你的晨报的头版
#5 Self Driving Cars Of The Future, Circa 1960
未来的自动驾驶汽车，大约画于1960年
#6 James Bond Receives A "Text" Via His Smartwatch In The Spy Who Loved
Me
在《007:海底城》中，詹姆斯·邦德通过智能手表收到了一条“短信”
#7 How Nasa Imagined Life In Space
美国宇航局想象太空生活是怎样的
#8 Home Shopping In The 1940s
20世纪40年代的家庭购物
#9 Monsanto House Of The Future 1957
孟山都(美国著名农业生化公司)未来之屋，1957年
#10 City Of The Future As Imagined In 1908
1908年设想的未来城市
图片来源：Liucija Adomaite
