Citations:retrofuturism

Noun: "the revival of historical conceptions of the future in media and design"

 * 1999 — James Sullivan, "Visions of Tomorrowland", The San Franscisco Chronicle, 3 January 1999:
 * From sonic scavenger Beck to Bobby Digital, the digitized alter-ego of Wu-Tang Clan maestro RZA, musicians who have raised sampling to an art form are fixated on retrofuturism. The words "intergalactic," "space age" and "science fiction" are cropping up again and again in album and song titles.
 * 2005 — John L. Jacobus, The Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild: An Illustrated History, McFarland (2005), ISBN 9780786417193, page 156:
 * During this time the Exner team invented the retro-designed automobile (today called retrofuturism) long before today's popular Beetle, Plymouth Prowler, Thunderbird or PT Cruiser.
 * 2006 — David Bell, Science, Technology and Culture, Open University Press (2006), ISBN 9780335213269, pages 89-90:
 * Even the aesthetics of its interface, with a kind of Star Trek-like retrofuturism, makes users feel as if their computer is doing the things we imagined computers would be doing, rather than the humdrum business of typing, filing and storing.
 * 2009 — Chuck Tryon, Reinventing Cinema: Movies in the Age of Media Convergence, Rutgers University Press (2009), ISBN 9780813545462, page 85:
 * By comparing video iPods to the retrofuturism of Dick Tracy comics, Stewart is able to depict them as deluded technological fantasies that are essentially childish, caught in a young boy's dream of what movie watching might be like in a fantasy future.
 * 2012 — Thomas Willeford, Steampunk Gear, Gadgets, and Gizmos: A Maker's Guide to Creating Modern Artifacts, McGraw-Hill Companies (2012), ISBN 9780071762373, page 4:
 * I discuss the two broad types of Steampunk worlds here: the alternative history, and retrofuturism/modernism.