retro future

English

Etymology

retro + future; the term was coined after this vision became obsolete.

Noun

retro future

  1. An optimistic version of the future (featuring flying cars, slave-like robots, etc.) popular from approximately the 1920s to the 1960s.

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Last modified on 26 December 2011, at 11:30