{"id":72979,"date":"2017-09-30T16:28:59","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T23:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/8-science-fiction-illustrations-that-now-feel-crazy-prescient"},"modified":"2017-09-30T16:28:59","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T23:28:59","slug":"8-science-fiction-illustrations-that-now-feel-crazy-prescient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/8-science-fiction-illustrations-that-now-feel-crazy-prescient","title":{"rendered":"8 Science Fiction Illustrations That Now Feel Crazy Prescient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/8-science-fiction-illustrations-that-now-feel-crazy-prescient.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looking back at vintage conceptions of the future can be interesting. Most depictions of the 2000s that were rendered in the 1800s or early 1900s come off as whimsical, because they\u2019re so off-target. Illustrators in the past were often focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/8596-how-the-past-imagined-the-future-of-mass-transportation\">transportation<\/a>, military tactics, and domestic life, and they predicted everything from <a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/2r2y6xR.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">whale buses<\/a> to <em>Fallout <\/em>-esque <a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/YK3U8XX.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fashion<\/a>. Some illustrated predictions, however, are eerily accurate.<\/p>\n<p>In 1963, science fiction author Hugo Gernsback posed for <em>Life Magazine<\/em> wearing a fake mock-up of a tool featured in one of his stories. He called the contraption \u201cTV glasses\u201d. Considering them now, they look a lot like an oculus rift. Hugo told <em>Life<\/em> that users would one day watch television on screens so close to their eyes that they felt immersed in the action, effectively predicting the media\u2019s recent preoccupation with virtual reality.<\/p>\n<p>No one\u2019s sure if Hugo also predicted immersive \u201caction\u201d of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/8716-google-cardboard-gets-its-first-dedicated-porn-channel\">pornographic kind<\/a>, but that\u2019s what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/7109-pornhub-s-vice-president-on-virtual-reality-it-s-coming\">technology\u2019s<\/a> up to now.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/10329-8-science-fiction-illustrations-that-now-feel-crazy-prescient?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=inverse&utm_campaign=organic\">https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/10329&#45;8-science-fiction-...gn=organic<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back at vintage conceptions of the future can be interesting. Most depictions of the 2000s that were rendered in the 1800s or early 1900s come off as whimsical, because they\u2019re so off-target. Illustrators in the past were often focused on transportation, military tactics, and domestic life, and they predicted everything from whale buses to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}