Quite unusual to see how people thought about this days and how wired would have been. All tough the robots are on their way, and the cars are nicer :)

ROFL

LOL - those are so funny now.

No fair - its way past the year 2000, where is my personal Robot and my space jetpack!!

Interesting point - where are the modern versions of those books?

I think that maybe technology advances so fast these days that kids wouldn't be as interested as the were back in '79.

I HAD THIS BOOK! I ALSO HAD THE USBORNE BOOK OF GHOSTS. Both of these books where firm favourites of mine and my brothers. I was so very scared that our future was going to end up like the smog ridden prophecy on image 6. thanks for bringing back fond memories.

Yeah, a lot of that stuff hasn't come true, but the art is still really cool. Thanks for sharing.

There is a designer who has a retro looking robot portfolio site that is pretty nice. It's here.

I still have this books, but in spanish, I love them cause when I was a child they were my favorite, they were so naive but in this time for me they had the value of an encyclopedy... I remember that in these books they didn´t talk a thing about world or religion. this kind of books belong to a very nice collection that talked about UFO's, ghosts... just great

The 1991 - 2000 timechart is pretty interesting -

"Genetic engineering, the artificial improvement of plant or animal breeds is used to make super-strains of wheat, corn, barley, maize, and may other crop foods. " -http://www.pointlessmuseum.com/museum/usbornebookofthefuture033.php

Great! It covers land air and water.. and implied that there will be more to add :)

I really like the retro futuristic stuff. You should do a follow up post with more links. Its cool because its funny when the predictions are way off and then eerie when they got even close to what happened. I noticed your running this site on Drupal, *nice*.

The pages have a real nice style about them, pity that most websites and print dont follow something like this.