{"645624":{"#nid":"645624","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"30 Predictions From \u201cRetro Future\u201d That Were Either A Hit Or A Miss","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELisa Yaszek, Regents Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was featured in the article \u0026quot;30 Predictions from \u0026#39;Retro Future\u0026#39; That Were Either a Hit or Miss,\u0026quot; published March 19, 2021 on the website\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EBored Panda\u003C\/em\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYaszek, a leading scholar in the field of retrofuturism, provided a synopsis of the field for the article, which examined what came to pass \u0026ndash; or not \u0026ndash; in past depictions of the future.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETo find out more about the weird and wonderful retrofuturism movement,\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EBored Panda\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;reached out to\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/sites.gatech.edu\/lyaszek\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ELisa Yaszek\u003C\/a\u003E, a Regents Professor of Science Fiction Studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELisa explained that when we talk about retrofuturist objects and images, we usually refer to images of the past from the late 1800s through the space race, like many of the images collected here. \u0026ldquo;And when we look at these images, it becomes clear that people from the past actually had expectations of the future that were often quite like our own!\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.boredpanda.com\/retro-people-future-imagination\/\u0022\u003EFull article.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35266","created_gmt":"2021-03-22 19:31:15","changed_gmt":"2021-03-22 19:31:15","author":"ifrazer3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"first Black students","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.boredpanda.com\/retro-people-future-imagination\/","dateline":{"date":"2021-03-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2021-03-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"628451":{"id":"628451","type":"image","title":"Lisa Yaszek","body":null,"created":"1572548549","gmt_created":"2019-10-31 19:02:29","changed":"1572552353","gmt_changed":"2019-10-31 20:05:53","alt":"","file":{"fid":"239346","name":"Lisa Yaszek 740Xx scale.small_.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Lisa%20Yaszek%20740Xx%20scale.small__0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Lisa%20Yaszek%20740Xx%20scale.small__0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":91906,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Lisa%20Yaszek%20740Xx%20scale.small__0.jpg?itok=aSxwf4ln"}}},"media_ids":["628451"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1616","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"167943","name":"School of Literature Media and Communication"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}