My country has a monorail train system now…it’s awesome. America should start investing in monorail s. They’re very convenient, fast, and reliable!

I live in Southern California, a few miles from the 405 Freeway, which is one of the busiest highways in the U.S. No section of it is two-stories, other than very short sections where there is an overpass. Yet, when I visited Mexico City about a decade ago, I was amazed by their two-story, six lane freeways. In other words, there were six lanes on the ground level and six lanes above. They run from the airport all the way to the outskirts of the city, about an hour’s worth of travel time, 12 lanes total. I was staying in a high rise and noticed a huge number of helicopters flying overhead. After some research, I found out Mexico City is the second city in the world with the most heliports. Rio de Janeiro is number one. Japan has a city which comes in third in heliports. For comparison, Los Angeles is the 11th city with most heliports. Going back to Mexico City, I was also surprised by the number of parking lots with automated systems, where cars are stacked one on top of the other, elevator style, and at the press of a button, your car is retrieved. Very Jetsons style! 🛸 I don’t understand why we don’t have these systems in the U.S. Probably too much red tape and the influence of the car industry 🚗 🚘 🚙

11:09 I saw modern cars on it

Chesley Bonestell was a big part of my childhood. His space art was prominently featured the World Book Encyclopedia my family had in the 1960s. I loved space exploration and was captivated and awed by Bonestell's visions.

We are developing a retro real flying car similar to the Blade Runner flying car that would fit in very well in this video. It is called Sky Chaser and looks and drives like a car, and flies both vertically like a drone and horizontally like a plane, in addition it is amphibian. An artistic picture of the vehicle can bee seen in my Icon, and We are located in the middle of Sweden, and are developing and test in a full scale prototype. Clicking on my icon you will see a project presentation and several test flight videos. For more information Google search Sky Chaser flying car.

The thing I like about this retro futurism era is that everything looked fresh and optimistic, unlike the 80s futurism such as Blade runner, Mad Max or The Clockwork Orange, which looks dark, hostile and somewhat dirty. In the 1950s peoples were more confident about the future, unlike today.

20+ years of big companies padding their pockets.. and microsoft’s mediocre technology having a stranglehold on society didn’t help

I moved to Beijing in 2008 under the impression that this futurism was real. As it turned out, it was a hoax. I worked in a tall building that was completed mostly on the outside for visual impact for the Olympic games that year. Most of the building didn't even have plumbing or running water. Similarly the new subways and many other structures were disappointing once you got past the surface. When I traveled to the countryside and I saw Chinese living exactly as they did in 1949. Same thing when I traveled to Shanghai, Qingdao, Hong Kong and Guangzhou. Don't let the false modernity of Chinese cities fool you; all is not as it seems.

My uncle collected old Popular Science and Popular Mechanics magazines in the 1960s and I was always so thrilled to visit My uncle lived in the city, and we had to drive the newly-built interstate highway system with the flyover interchanges to reach his house. Back then, it seemed it was all coming true.

Eu acho incrível o Retro Future, a arquitetura de como as pessoas imaginavam o futuro antigamente é muito bonito visualmente.

Vehicle at 5:43 is similar to the Antarctic Cruiser kzbin.info/www/bejne/poiTlo2IpLZrbMksi=x1SIkn3B4DQULeD_

go back, we went the wrong way.

i'm from Brasil. Loving your contente

I like the 90s style Star Trek architecture.

I know I'm in the minority here, but I really like this type of architecture.

"Milk... Eggs... But-ter... Bacon... Beer... Hot-dogs... FARM Stores!" Drive through and get your groceries delivered to your automobile today.

Chesley Bonestell's futuristic paintings weren't just technically plausible, they were also beautiful. Aside from the futuristic subject matter, they worked on the artistic level as well.

i hope we go back to a classic design with these retrofuturism designs and it truly becomes a preffered design

I remember seeing the way cool future concept cars ,cities,and housing at the 1964 Worlds Fair in New York. 2001 A Space Odyssey, and the Jetsons ,and Disney shaped my ideas of future possibilities.

Rather telling how retrofuturistic landscapes were absolutely dominated and consumed by the wonders of technology. Prophesy fulfilled it would seem.

As far as transparent domes on Mars go..... :) It's not just meteorites, debris from those ships landing and launching right next to it are also a danger if they malfunction. Plus, the day/night heat cycle would alternately cook and chill the air in your dome making it expand and contract considerably. Also, it would need to be a radiation screening dome of great protective power, or everyone gets a nasty sunburn. Klaus is a legend....

The Japanese drawings make me think of the old Thunderbirds art work.

I just want to be there. In all of them.🤧🤕

Alas, we will never get our flying cars or hoverboards unless their is a major revision to the laws of physics or at least to our understanding of them.

Please note that it was likely Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater (the Kaufmann House) designed in 1935 and built in 1937 that inspired the futuristic art in the 1960s and not the other way around.

MCU Fantastic Four

Very nicely done video! I am about 10 years younger than the person born in the '40s you described at the start, yet I experienced all those feelings you mentioned them having. I grew up in the '60s, and was always future focused. I loved the 21st Century that was to come a lot more than the one that came!

At 12:15 I can see Commander Shepards favorite shop on the Citadel

The upcoming movie 'Fantastic Four: First Steps' is all about retro futurism and the space race. It's going to be awesome!

✡️<<<< they took this future

Syd Mead and others did such a great job at envisioning our future world. Too bad to bring such things to reality takes so much more than imagination, ink and paper. So much money, technical ability, political will, popular agreement, etc. Then it always takes 10 times longer than originally planned and billions of dollars more due to unforeseen issues.

Flying cars are ALWAYS a thing. Not yet though!

People in the 50s: The future looks bright; things will become amazing! People now: The future is bleak, we're all utterly fucked.

I would have added Canoo to the list.

Retro futurism it’s kinda like fallout four fallout three

Daddy the things you point at as the coming future, from cyber trucks, to the electric cars, etc.. are failures. Most everything Musk does is wildly less then what he promised. He’s not even really working toward Mars bases.. just talking about it for PR.

Domino’s pizza just started using jetpacks to deliver pizza!😮😃👍✨💖✨

Wish I could live in such a worldm

transparent aluminum

They’ve secretly had teleportation technology for millennia. Even portable teleporters. Thought I’d just throw that out there.

I would never want a self-driving car. Defeat the purpose, fun, and joy of having a car.

They could make a nuclear train. Bit

why the heck didn't you keep the archive film it is original aspect ratio- morons

We may advance technologically but the Native Americans were more socially advanced. They have always respected the land, animal species, two-spirit transgender people, the mystical in their vision quests. The healing power of herbs rather than synthetic drugs. What good is advanced tech if there’s still war, famine, homelessness, disease, exploitation, abuse, greed, authoritarian oppression, slavery, all of society’s ills? That isn’t true advancement. Especially when the powers that be want to create a technocratic, digital carbon credit, neuralink, hive borg mind, transhuman, singularity, dystopia robbed of any trace left of humanity or nature!

How do the imaginary people in our imaginary future imagine their future? Have you considered that?

An car with knobs and manual gear switching with NO electronic/computer but made with CAD. Make it repearable, not electronic heavy, no monitoring and remote switch of, emp-resistant, not to much plastic.

On Apple-TV there's a whole alternate history series depicting the idea of a space-race which never slowed down nor ended. It's called "For all Mankind"

the painting at 7:46 is just outside Page, Arizona - I was there recently!