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Originally Posted by RichL
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My take on it is that the 60's were particularly productive (Seattle's Century 21 Exposition and the like) but many of those ideas actually came from the 30's and 40's. The dreamer kids that grew up with Amazing Stories, Thrilling Wonder Stories and other sci-fi magazines in those decades were the engineers that were giving life to those dreams in the 50's and beyond.
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very good take. Many people simply don't realize just how many modern ideas and products were born in the 20s - 30s. The 40s sort of took a decade off, I think people were busy with some odd thing called WWII. Oddly WWI actually seemed to spur on creativity in the 20s. Sometimes that period from the 20s to late 30s is referred to as the "Modernist" period. Also Deco which usually refers to a period around 1920ish but Deco is not really about products and tech more just design and art. Of course Modernist was mostly about art and design as well; actually it seems to led directly into the Mid-Century era of the 50s-70s with the affection for Swedish Modern design. Swedish Modern has since been a design style that really has never gone out of favor or been a victim to trends.
Then with the 50s - 70s we had the so-called "Atomic Age" in design and creativity. Again a booming era. Of course that led to the profiteering era, aka 90s - '1x decades. Genuinely I don't thing we are seeing much in the way of evolving product right now.