Yesterday's Tomorrows

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Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future. By Joseph J. Corn and Brian Hogan. Katherine Chambers, editor. Washington, D.C. and New York City: The Smithsonian Institution/Summit Books, 1984. Rpt. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. "Originally published in a hardcover edition by the Smithsonian Institution [...] and Summit Books, New York." "Yesterday's Tomorrows was prepared by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service under the direction of Andrea Price Stevens, publication office," to supplement and summarize the exhibit. Copiously illustrated

Includes a Foreword, Preface, Epilogue, and Index, plus a bibliography of "Suggested Reading" and a "Catalogue List" for the exhibit, which could prove highly useful for the study of images relevant for the human/machine interface. Five central chapters:

• Chapter One: Finding the Future
• Chapter Two: The Community of Tomorrow
• Chapter Three: The Home of Tomorrow
• Chapter Four: The Transportation of Tomorrow
• Chapter Five: The Weapons and Warfare of Tomorrow 

Notable illustrations include

Syd Mead, Preliminary art for BLADE RUNNER: Cityscape at night

RDE, Initial Compiler, 3July20 f.