World War II transformed geopolitics and accelerated a technological revolution that found its way into the American home. In the decades that followed, architects, corporations, and futurists launched a new wave of innovations. From the factory-built Lustron Home and Buckminster Fuller's futuristic domes to Disneyland's House of the Future and Carousel of Progress, the post-war era imagined a future where technology would make life easier, more efficient, and ultimately more connected. Along the way, the home evolved from a building into a machine for living.

What They Got Right

• Automation became a defining feature of the modern home. Smart appliances, voice assistants, and home automation fulfilled many of the promises first imagined in post-war concept homes and attractions like Disney's Carousel of Progress.
• Prefabrication continued to evolve. While projects like Lustron and Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion House never achieved mass adoption, their ideas live on in today's modular homes, factory-built construction, and sustainable housing.
• Technology became integrated into everyday living. The future home increasingly relied on connected systems rather than standalone appliances, anticipating today's smart home ecosystems.

What They Missed

• Privacy became a central concern. Futurists celebrated connected homes without foreseeing the tradeoffs of surveillance, data collection, and cybersecurity.
• Technology doesn't eliminate complexity. Despite decades of promises, modern homes still require maintenance, upgrades, and human judgment. Greater convenience often comes with greater dependence on complex systems.

The post-war House of Tomorrow ultimately predicted many of the technologies and homes that we live in today. Join McKay, Ian, and Greg as they explore the post-war evolution of the House of Tomorrow, from atomic-age optimism to intelligent homes, and discover why the biggest changes weren't always the ones futurists expected.

Long before voice assistants and connected appliances, architects, inventors, and industrialists were imagining how technology would transform everyday life. At the turn of the last century, the "house of tomorrow" was defined by new technology, mass production, and bold new ideas about how people should live. From Sears mail-order houses to Le Corbusier's modernism and the spectacular homes showcased at the 1933 and 1939 World's Fairs, this was the era that laid the foundation for the future that followed.

What They Got Right

• Electrification transformed daily life. The prediction that electricity would become the backbone of every home proved completely accurate, powering everything from lighting and refrigeration to entertainment and communication.
• Standardization and prefabrication. Sears Homes demonstrated that houses could be manufactured, shipped, and assembled using standardized parts, an idea that continues today in modular and prefab construction.
• The automobile reshaped the home. Visionaries correctly foresaw that garages, suburbs, and need for parking would become inseparable from the American home.

What They Missed

• Environmental sustainability. These homes celebrated abundance and technological progress with little awareness of energy consumption, resource limits, or climate impacts.
• Homes are more than machines. While many architects pursued efficiency and standardization, they often underestimated the emotional, cultural, and personal reasons people resist radically new ways of living.

The pre-war "House of Tomorrow" legacy wasn't any single invention, it was about free'ing humanity from the drugery of domestic work and creating more comfortable living spaces, setting the wheels in motion for major societal changes. Join McKay, Ian, and Greg as they explore the first great age of domestic futurism, when the future home wasn't yet smart or energy saving, but it was becoming unmistakably modern.

Frank Lloyd Wright reimagined how people should live. At a time when cities were growing denser and industry was reshaping daily life, Wright championed a future rooted in nature, human experience, and thoughtful design. Through iconic works like Fallingwater and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, he developed a philosophy of organic architecture, arguing that buildings should grow from their surroundings rather than dominate them. His ideas extended beyond individual structures to ambitious visions like Broadacre City and Usonian homes, which sought to redefine how Americans would live, work, and connect with the landscape.

What He Got Right

• Open floor plans became a defining feature of modern residential design.
• Natural light, indoor-outdoor living, and human-centered spaces are now core architectural principles.
• Architecture is increasingly viewed as an experience, not just a structure.
• His emphasis on harmony between buildings and their environment anticipated many sustainable design principles.

What He Missed

• Many of his "affordable" Usonian homes proved difficult to build and maintain economically.
• His vision assumed abundant land and resources that are increasingly constrained today.

Join McKay, Ian, and Greg as we explore the self-proclaimed greatest architect of all time who challenged America to rethink everything from its buildings to its relationship with the future.

Across Back to the Future, Back to the Future Part II, and Back to the Future Part III, the future isn't something that happens to you, it's something you can change. Released during the optimistic, nostalgia-driven culture of the 1980s, the trilogy combines small-town Americana with speculative futurism, creating a world where individual choices ripple across time. Through the adventures of Marty McFly and Doc Brown, the films transform time travel from a scientific curiosity into a deeply personal story about family, identity, and self-determination.

What It Got Right

• Individual choices, relationships, and life decisions often matter more than technology itself.
• Technology increasingly enhances convenience and personalization through smart devices, voice interaction, and automation.
• Cultural nostalgia has become a powerful force, with the past constantly revisited, remade, and reinterpreted.
• DeLorean's are just cool.

What It Missed

• Its vision of the future remained focused on consumer gadgets rather than broader social transformation. Complex challenges like climate change, political polarization, and global interconnectedness barely appear.
• Mr Fusion, flying cars and personal hoverboards have proven either too impractical or not yet possible.

Nearly forty years later, Back to the Future remains one of the most influential visions of tomorrow ever put on screen, and according to Greg the best movie ever filmed! It both accurately predicted the future and captured the belief that our future is shaped by the choices we make today.

Join McKay, Ian, and Greg as we explore the trilogy that convinced a generation that the future is never fully written.

Harley Earl didn’t just create the art and science of automotive design, he helped teach America what the future was supposed to look like. At General Motors, Earl transformed automobiles from mechanical products into emotional experiences, using sweeping forms, jet-age styling, and theatrical presentations to turn progress into spectacle. From tailfins inspired by fighter planes to the creation of the modern concept car, Earl believed the future had to capture the imagination before it could shape reality.

But his vision extended far beyond the showroom. Through the Parade of Progress, World’s Fair exhibits, and the creation of the General Motors Technical Center, Earl helped pioneer a new kind of corporate futurism, a future where companies didn’t just build products, but immersive visions of tomorrow.

What He Got Right

Harley accurately predicted, and shaped, the growing importance of design, branding, and desire in shaping consumer culture, and created the model year structure, one of the core engines of consumerism. Harley created a playbook for building brands and selling products that is followed by companies from Apple to Jaguar today.

What He Missed

Harley's future also assumed endless growth, constant consumption, and limitless resources. The sleek optimism he championed helped define postwar America and laid the groundwork for many of the excesses that followed.

Join McKay, Ian, and Greg as we explore the man who turned the future into something people could see, touch, and aspire to own.

Michael Crichton wasn't a dreamer of distant futures, rather he built worlds that felt only a few steps ahead of reality and filled with cautionary tales. Drawing from his medical training and deep interest in emerging technologies, Crichton explored what happens when powerful systems become too complex for the people operating them to fully understand. From the genetic chaos of Jurassic Park to the runaway automation of Westworld and the invisible dangers of The Andromeda Strain, his stories framed the future not as fantasy, but as consequence.

What He Got Right

Crichton accurately anticipated growing anxieties around biotechnology, artificial intelligence, corporate influence, and the instability of interconnected systems. His work captured a world where innovation moves faster than ethics and where complexity itself becomes a source of risk.

What He Missed

His futures often assumed technological systems would fail dramatically and catastrophically, overlooking how adaptation, regulation, and human collaboration frequently stabilize new technologies over time. His worlds are brilliant at exposing overconfidence, and less interested in the quieter ways societies learn to cope with change.

Join McKay, Ian, and Greg as we explore the prolific writer and director who turned scientific possibility into cultural cautionary tales, and made the future feel both thrilling and dangerously close.

In Blade Runner 2049, director Denis Villeneuve expands the original’s question of humanity into something quieter and more unsettling: whether our memories and relationships are real. Set in a world of artificial memories, engineered beings, and AI relationships, the film trades action for introspection, presenting a future where meaning feels increasingly manufactured. Its vision of AI companionship, corporate control, and emotional isolation feels less like speculation and more like an extension of modern life.

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Join McKay, Ian, and Greg as we explore a future where memory defines reality, replicants strive for human connection, and meaning is something you have to choose for yourself.

Giger’s vision of the future isn’t something to aspire to, it’s something to survive. H. R. Giger didn’t imagine sleek machines or heroic frontiers, he gave science fiction its nightmares. Emerging from postwar Europe and shaped by Cold War anxiety, Giger’s work channeled subconscious fear rather than optimism. Where Ralph McQuarrie made the future believable, Giger made it predatory. His biomechanical worlds fused flesh and machine, turning bones into architecture and technology into something invasive.

In Alien, his Xenomorph terrified a generation with a vision that impacts us today. His work anticipated fears of dehumanizing systems and corporate indifference, where people become components.

Join McKay, Ian, and Greg as we explore the artist who turned the future into something visceral, unsettling, and impossible to ignore.