Retro-Futurism

Primary Focus: Technology

Retro-Futurism is very a popular way to depict visions of the future. It mixes both the past and the future to reach its unique style. It reaches towards the past and uses a "retro" style in order to make depictions of the future more interesting and different. Retro-Futuristic works of art are almost always those over the top images that we see full of things we couldn't even dream of. It usually focuses mainly on super advanced technologies filled with space travels, robots and huge metal cities with flying cars. Though the phrase "never in a million years" comes to mind when we think of these things, the retro style in the artwork makes it slightly believable that one day we will be this advanced. When looking at the 2 Retro-Futuristic images above it makes it feel like people who can actually come up with those kinds of out of this world scenery aren't really happy with the current world we live in - they want so much more. As amazing as the pictures makes a society like that look, would we ACTUALLY want to live in a place like that? Where everything is so metallic and there would be more robots around than humans? Do we REALLY need people living on the moon with TV watches? Its fair that we should all have our visions of a better future, but at the same time we should not be taking the things that we have today for granted. I sure wouldn't want a future as exaggerated as the pictures at any point, but the problem is that its almost inevitable. At this point its not up to us because we depend so much on technology that we can't control it anymore. Technology will continue to evolve into things like those in the pictures whether we like it our not. It seems as if the more technology advanced the less of our humanity we actually get to keep. We created all of technology to better our lives, but by these depictions it is clear that we actually created a monster that we have no hopes of stopping and that is going to slowly but surely take over us all as humans.