Ah, yes, Bladerunner. I was thinking of that movie as a counterpoint to the future "predicted" by BttF2 as well. They're both 80s movies set in the same then-future decade. They both show a radically changed future world that is actually a leapfrog-jump past what the world by that decade in real life could ever…

Oh yes.... that last scene in MOSTLY HARMLESS left me all weepy-eyed for at least two weeks, maybe three, after I'd finally hit the end of the book, having finally gotten a copy maybe a decade after it had first seen print. (I'd been waiting ages for them to put out a regular paperback instead of that oversized…

Wow, wasn't aware these ever existed. Is there some place that has an archive of these, or a guide to them, or something?

Ah, typewriter keyboards. For years I've wanted one just like the one they had on Max Headroom. :D There's actually a company rolling out a typewriter-styled computer keyboard, done in the really old style ROUND keys like the one on the show here had, but inside its a regular computer keyboard — albeit with…

There are services online that will fax an image, or a selection of text it will then convert into an image, to whatever fax number you provide it. Also, there's this thing called a "faxmodem," which, using the appropriate software, takes an image provided it and transmits it as a fax, and if it receives a fax it…

I've actually been hoping for years someone would do a movie version of the Skylark books, too. Mind you, I think they should be handled as a period piece. That is, make them retro-future in the same sense that Sky Captain was and that, taken from a different direction, that last movie version of George Orwell's…

Anyone remember RUNAWAY ROBOT, by Lester Del Ray? :D

Well, while we're on the subject of naming every young-people-oriented book we can think of... :D Some years back, I came across a used book in a Goodwill store I now wish I'd picked up, but at the time I was just too self-conscious that I was standing there looking at a kids book. It was a trade-paperback sized…

Not only that, they changed the genre! The novel was space-adventure, not fairy-tale fantasy!

I'm actually kinda sad they tore down the Monsanto house, some of the other house-of-the-future demo builds wound up later being made practical use of. Say, being turned into an *actual* house. There was a house-of-the-future build here in Florida back in the 80s or so (I think it was) called Zanadu, or something…

Actually, it's been made clear that the new SL2 that is being developed is a separate project from High Fidelity. Both will reach beta-test stage some time in 2015. I gather HyFy (as some people like to abbreviate it) aims to be ready for the general public by 2017, while it sounds like SL2 aims to be ready for the…

I was very much looking forward to John Carter, ever since I'd heard it was in production. Not so much because I felt it was high time Barsoom made it to the movies, though there was that too, but because I figured if it did at all well, Hollywood would be looking around for other material to cash in on that was…

"...it entered the lunar atmosphere base-first, just as the Mercury astronauts did." It sounds here like you're saying the Mercury astronauts arrived at the Moon base-first, when what you likely really mean is they returned to the Earth base-first.

Uhm... actually, there IS a new movie version in the works. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt040234…

Brings whole new meaning to the phrase "artsy-fartsy," doesn't it? :D :D :D

Here's another cars-of-the-future video, from the 50s.

Yes, I remember little W1k1 from back then, from way back before the Hawaiian word wikiwiki (for "happens quickly," or something of the sort) got reworked into the word for online, user-editable encyclopedias. Tiny, white, box-shaped thing with legs that one of the characters carried around in a compartment on his…

Or "Baker's Street Irregulars" shotacon? oO