Closer Than We Think: Arthur Radebaugh and advertising's role in selling the future

The 50th anniversary of 2001: A Space Odyssey saw many tributes to the vision and foresight of creations like Hal-9000. But Kubrick wasn’t the first to engage in future-gazing in his work.
Closer Than We Think, a new documentary from filmmaker Brett Ryan Bonowicz, explores the forgotten legacy of Arthur Radebaugh – graphic artist, comic-strip writer and ‘imagineer’ who foresaw smart wearables, electric cars, mobile phones and video calls some 50 years before they were bro