I didn’t set out to write about the future. I was threading film reels and sitting alone in a booth most nights, watching movies from the ‘60s, ‘70s, and ‘80s—paying more attention to the background details than the plots. The way people imagined computers, cities, even everyday life. It stuck with me.
After that job ended, I started digging into old magazines, ads, and documentaries. Not the big, famous predictions everyone already knows, but the smaller ones—the kitchen gadgets, the office tools, the quiet assumptions about how life would change. Some of it feels charming now. Some of it feels uncomfortably close.
What I write here usually starts with something I stumble across: a photo, a line in an article, a product that never caught on. From there I follow it out a bit—what people expected, what actually happened, and what got lost in between. It’s less about getting the future wrong, and more about how people tried to picture it in the first place.