Dr. John Wilkins’ lunar ambitions were a little too lofty. By Natalie Zarrelli.

Bruno Latour on the election of Donald Trump and the coming ecological crisis. (Nov. 17, 2016)

On a bright, clear Fourth of July in 1975, a crowd of onlookers and reporters assembled in the vast parking lot of the Cow Palace, a convention center just outside San Francisco. They had been summoned by a curious press release that read in part: “On July 4, 1975 members of Ant Farm will drive a Phantom Dream Car thru a wall of burning television sets in an event called MEDIA BURN.”

Philco-Ford Corporation (1967)

The history of the future is replete with horrible utopias. By Geoff Nunberg.

They also feared treasure hunters and the secession of New Mexico. By Cara Giaimo.

George Clinton is a futurist… By Jordan Pearson.

From skyscraper bridges to glass domes, an intoxicating glimpse at how New York might have looked.

Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward presented a twentieth century that was free of nineteenth-century drudgery. By Ben Tarnoff.

For decades, Ray Kurzweil has consistently been wrong about the future. But people still listen to him for some reason. By Matt Novak. (July 26, 2016)

With traffic accidents soaring, Charles Adler imagined an intelligent transportation system that was ahead of its time. By Lee Vinsel.

In the 1970s and 80s, crews sat at constant readiness in nuclear missile silos buried in the Arizona desert. What would have happened if they had got the order to launch? By Richard Hollingham.

A supersonic airliner that flies at three times the speed of sound – and runs on nuclear fusion. Stephen Dowling investigates the challenges of making airliners run on atomic power.

John Bluck, NASA Lewis Research Center and Dr. Carrie Heeter, Michigan State University

It's 2015. But sometimes it feels like our futuristic dreams are stuck in the 1950s and 60s. And there's actually a good reason for that. By Matt Novak.

The theme of the inaugural London Design Biennale is Utopia to mark the 500th anniversary of Thomas More’s classic. Director Christopher Turner remembers the architects on a mission to make the world a better place.

“Abandoned in Place,” a new book of photographs by Roland Miller, finds haunting beauty in derelict launch pads, rusting towers and other detritus of the American space race. By Kenneth Chang.

A Tale of Phil DeGuere, The Late 1970s, and Arthur C. Clarke’s Classic Novel. By James Burns.

An inflatable space habitat test highlights the quirky visions we've had for the future of housing, from cities under glass to EPCOT. By Erin Blakemore.

Newly released documents describe the U.S. Air Force’s secret cold war project known as the Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL). By Leonard David.