Retro Thinker Gifts

Returning Home

"Secure in their ignorance, medieval peasants were impervious to education, fearful of progress and lived on potatoes and cabbage. Thankfully, it's very different today. Now they've got burgers and fries."

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

How we imagined A.I. in 1977. . . How it's looking today. . .

'It finally took me thirty years, but I finally have one of every 3-D comic book ever made'

Time Machine Collision

"Milk, butter, bread - all past the expiration date. either he just hadn't noticed before, or his time machine worked."

"I understand the revisionists are hot on your trail, Professor Delauney."

"There is a 5 month slow down. You are still on the fastest route. You will arrive next year."

'I love this street...it's so real man...'

'My daughter says I'm hopelessly outdated...'

"The house doesn't seem big because the kids are gone - it seems big because we've shrunk so much."

'Of course he didn't believe the stork story. Try telling him we made him with a 3D printer.'

"1971... 2015..."

"Boy, these are really overdue!"

'I'd kill for concrete.'

1998: A Look Back

A pilgrim driving a camper leaving the Mayflower ship.

"Dad hasn't been the same since he went back to school."

1930's bather.

The Bonvoy Age...

You read the instruction manual for a video game for your book report?

'Does it have colour?'

Space Rocket.

The days before television

Today's problems should have been solved in the 1950s, but in the '50s we were solving the problems of the '20s, and in the 20's we were solving the problems of the 1890's.

The wonder of modern technology

"This time I'm sure I've got it right!"

"Speaking only for myself, the unexamined life was a total gas!"

'Rorschach multiple-choice test'

The Automatic Policeman