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Retro-futurism is a trend in design that involves depicting what the future might look like in the style, and from the point of view, of someone from the past. It’s deeply confusing to think about and probably involves some kind of time paradox if you’re not careful, so best not to dwell on the definition. Here are some very cool examples of the form though! posted on March 31, 2011 at 2:31pm EDT

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      super great!

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      great stuff
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      The future is so old.

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      I expected more future…

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      These are quite beautiful.  Wish our present-future looked as good.

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      Is atompunk the same thing? Like in the Fallout series?

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