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Foresight Is 2020

2020 always just sounded so far in the future when I was a kid. Really, even 2000 still had a bit of awe-inspiring mysticism about it, but I remember most of my childhood interest in a science fiction sort of … Continue reading →

Posted in Capitalism, Cartoons, Climate, Corporations, Economics, Global Warming, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Science, Technology, Television, The Jetsons | Tagged architecture, art deco, automation, computers, elon musk, emerald city, flying cars, futurism, googie, internet, jetpacks, retrofuturism, science fiction, smart phones, space travel |

A Whole New World Order

Conspiracy theorists love to talk about something called the “New World Order,” leaving the rest of us to wonder what this actually means and why it’s a bad thing. After all, it’s not like the CURRENT world order is without … Continue reading →

Posted in Christianity, Cold War, Communism, Conspiracy Theories, Economics, Fundamentalism, History, Politics, Religion | Tagged antisemitism, barry goldwater, fred koch, frederick hicks, futurism, h.g. wells, john birch, john birch society, koch brothers, new world order, one world government, president dwight eisenhower, president george h.w. bush, revelation, tea party, united nations |

Left Below

I’m sure you’ve heard of the Rapture, if only from those bumper stickers that say, “In case of rapture, this vehicle will be unmanned.” Because it’s totally not prideful to assume you’ll be one of the ones raptured, and I’m … Continue reading →

Posted in Catholicism, Christianity, Eastern Orthodox, Fundamentalism, Judaism, Religion, Zoroastrianism | Tagged 1 thessalonians, amillennialism, bible, cotton mather, daniel, dispensationalism, futurism, great tribulation, increase mather, jesus, john nelson darby, left behind, millennialism, plymouth brethren, postmillennialism, premillennialism, preterism, rapture, resurrection, revelation, scofield reference bible |

Think, McFly, Think!

I recently read the first drafts of the scripts for Back to the Future and Back to the Future Part II, an interesting exercise. The draft for the first film contains the basic skeleton of the plot, but lacks most … Continue reading →

Posted in Futurama, Star Trek, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged back to the future, back to the future part ii, biff tannen, cold fusion, crispin glover, dr. emmett brown, flying cars, futurism, marty mcfly, time travel |