Retro Visionaries Gifts

Necessary glasses

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

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

Time Machine Collision

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

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

"Attention, everyone! I'd like to introduce the newest member of our family."

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

'I, Dom Perignon, will now uncork the very first bottle of Champagne. Of course, I'm just guessing this is the right way to do it.'

Innovate or die.

'Like us, the Hula Hoop will never go out of style.'

"He's really excited about this new proposal to let staff take over services."

How Gary got his groove back.

'You have a 9:00 A.M. appointment with your ophthalmologist to check your vision and a 11:00 A.M. appointment with the staff to rally the troops around your vision.'

"I love you, even though you still use a flip phone."

TV dinners: regular and widescreen

"These are PC to view, providing we laugh in an ironic and non-committal way - belly laughing constitutes a hate crime."

"What about that! His brain still uses the old vacuum tubes."

'We don't discriminate per se - we just don't hire Lyle Lovett lookalikes.'

'Does it have colour?'

'I-need-bifocal-itis.'

Space Rocket.

The wonder of modern technology

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.

"Now, be honest. Do these glasses make me look ridiculous?"

"In the olden days, people used payphones. Beats me how they took selfies!"

"Now it's high definition!"

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

Chinese takeout closed temporarily: 'Our abacus is down.'

The Automatic Policeman

"And our charging station, also a period piece. . ."