It’s nearly the end of 2011, so imagine a 2012 that might have looked a bit like this…
Homes
The remarkable Volcano House - see http://www.archithings.net
The remarkable Volcano House - see http://www.archithings.net
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University
A Titan missile complex - see http://www.titan2icbm.org
Thomy Lafon School, New Orleans
Planes
Bartini Beriev VVA-14
Bartini Beriev VVA-14
Breguet 731 Bellatrix (from xplanes.tumblr.com)
Convair YF-107
Mars
Russian Mars mission spacecraft (from astronomy.neatherd.org)
NASA Mars Mission (1989, Les Bossinas of NASA Lewis Research Center)
It Doesn't Have To Be Right... 
2011-12-26 at 14:22
Wish 2012 would look that way, at least as far as a mission to Mars.
I actually like these retro designs. The visions folks had of the future back then have an interesting aesthetic.