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Unmanned operating rooms, robots that iron, cook, clean and discipline unruly children suffering from ADD, videophones, and a life filled with relaxation and smiles were colourfully depicted by Shigeru Komatsuzaki and Toshio Okazaki in Shōnen Sunday (1969) magazine. ‘Computopia’, ‘The Rise of the Computerized School’ (Komatsuzaki) and ‘Computer Life in 20 Years’ (Okazaki), predicts a future (1989) where computers are ubiquitous and this pervasion has only positive and merry results. There are NO spinning beachballs (thank you Macintosh) to be found anywhere. [Source Pink Tentacle]

Funny how the context of advertising images change when we look back at what was fashionable and socially acceptable in the past. Before John Wayne Gacy, Halloween, Friday The 13th, the Saw movies or really anything scary involving masks, it was perfectly fine to use these types of images to sell products to kids! Some of these are just plain creepy …

In this current era of post modernism being the new modern, it’s refreshing to take a look at when there was a real sense of excitement surrounding objects that impacted on everyday life.