History is filled with people who predicted the future more or less correctly. Like Leonardo DaVinci predicting helicopters in the 1400’s and Jules Verne predicting submarines in 1870. But those two ideas were what we call innovations, or ideas that took technological tools and made completely new ideas on them. The ones below, imagined by the Bohn Aluminum and Brass Corporation in the 1940’s are more like re-designs of existing innovations.
Regardless, they are awesome. Here are my top 5 favorites. To see the rest of the 23 images in the gallery, click over to the Business Insider article and gallery.
Bohn Futuristic Transportation
Rocket Powered Super Airliner!!!! Impractical, yet awesome.
The biggest dump truck in the world. This is too cool for words.
Imagine what Mike Mulligan
While this is a cool tractor, it’s not much more retro-futuristic than the actual tractors of the 1940’s.
This lawn mower isn’t really that amazing. The thing that Bohn didn’t realize was that the lawnmower of the future wouldn’t need to have a handle, cause it would be fully robotic, or remote control.
Check out the full gallery. What’e your favorite Bohn concept? and consider this: how much do you want to have all 23 of those as die-cast toys? (ME TOOOO!!!!).
-Mike
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Suggested Reading: Radiolab: What Does Technology Want?
In this conversation recorded as part of the New York Public Library series LIVE from the NYPL, Steven Johnson (author of Where Good Ideas Come From) and Kevin Kelly (author of What Technology Wants) try to convince Robert that the things we make—from spoons to microwaves to computers—are an extension of the same evolutionary processes that made us. And we may need to adapt to the idea that our technology could someday truly have a mind of its own. Listen
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