There is an analogy to computing here. I mentioned a couple of 30+ year old books here about what the future of software would be: https://news.ycombinator.co

There is an analogy to computing here. I mentioned a couple of 30+ year old books here about what the future of software would be: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22093100 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22093100 by Brad Cox (inventor of Objective C) and David Gelertner (CS professor and entrepreneur). I guess you could make Retrofuturistic software now by writing modern versions of those old ideas (which didn't turn out to be economically feasible / adopted, at least in the exact form predicted, although in some cases they were influential.)