May

24

The future that never was

Filed Under History, Social Studies 

Probably one of the most intriguing concepts is how people in the past looked at their future, or what may be our now. Some of their predictions were wildly off, and some, not too surprisingly, were bang on.

Paleo-Future is a blog devoted to exactly the concept of wondering what was going to be. It digs through a lot of archival material to offer some really neat glimpses of the perceived future. One of the cooler ones may be this series of postcards that showed what was believed to come.

This site offers a really neat way to get into the minds of people from the past, or to start a discussion of what the future might be, or perhaps should be. It’s a blog full of unique primary source material that helps make history just a little bit cooler than it already is.

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