The future is now, but the future is also 10 years from now. These days, things are changing so insanely quickly that it's hard to keep up. Technology is advancing faster than ever before, it's pretty amazing and kind of terrifying. There are electronics and products out there now that were not even a concept 30 or 40 years ago. Likewise, there are things people thought would exist by now that definitely do not, like flying cars. The world has yet to create everything, though, so you never know what might be in store in the next decade.

Back in the day, people had some wacky ideas about what the future would look like. People have always liked predicting the future and what it contains. Futuristic products, super advanced cars, teleportation… these are all things people thought might be around by now. People have interesting ways of thinking about the future.

The Internet has eternalized many images of what people thought the world would look like now; nothing disappears online. Here are 25 images from the past of how folks pictures the future, or current times, would look like.