off-topic: Looking into the future

• The world as a Global Village according to Marshall McLuhan
  
  
• The city of the future in 1964 according to Arthur C. Clarke (author of  2001: A Space Odyssey). That was pretty close!

Others didn't get the future that right....  not until now 

• Explaining the futuristic city in Blade Runner (really interesting!)
  
• Fritz Lang’s Metropolis: Uncut & Restored
  
  
• 1930s Fashion Designers Imagine Year 2000. ("... an eletric belt will adapt the body to climatic changes")