Matt Alt in Tokyo, following up on a recent BB post about a 1979 American view of the future, shares this wonderful scan. He says:
This is 1969's view of 1989! It's from Shonen Sunday Magazine, a weekly comic compilation. Beautiful, groovy art. Hey, at least they got the "Roomba" right (even if they were off by a few decades!)
Over the weekend I was talking to an out-of-town relative who is in her 20s about music from Japan's Studio Ghibli films — specifically, about the anime studio's music composer,… READ THE REST
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The unsung hero of countless boozy nights out has passed away. Shigeichi Negishi, inventor of the first commercially available karaoke machine, died of natural causes, at the age of 100.… READ THE REST
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