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Magical Thinking
Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward presented a twentieth century that was free of nineteenth-century drudgery. By Ben Tarnoff.
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The Dazzling Designs for a New York That Never Existed
From skyscraper bridges to glass domes, an intoxicating glimpse at how New York might have looked.
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George Clinton Explains the Future
George Clinton is a futurist… By Jordan Pearson.
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1990s Doomsday Planners Worried About Feminists Breaching Nuclear Waste Sites
They also feared treasure hunters and the secession of New Mexico. By Cara Giaimo.
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Creepy Futures: Nicholas Carr’s History of the Future
The history of the future is replete with horrible utopias. By Geoff Nunberg.
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Year 1999 AD
Philco-Ford Corporation (1967)
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The Story Behind This Photo of a Car Crashing Into a Wall of TVs
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.”
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Two Bubbles of Unrealism: Learning From the Tragedy of Trump
Bruno Latour on the election of Donald Trump and the coming ecological crisis. (Nov. 17, 2016)
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The 17th-Century Moon Mission That Never Got Off the Ground
Dr. John Wilkins’ lunar ambitions were a little too lofty. By Natalie Zarrelli.
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My Life After 44 Years In Prison
This man essentially time travelled 44 years. (Dec. 23, 2016)
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Lessons for the Coming Utopia from the World's Fair Future of 1939
The future, according to the folks who make the renderings, will be built mostly around whooshing. The details differ from one imagined utopia to the next, but the broad strokes are the same. Cars will run on electricity, drive themselves, even fly. Networks of vacuum tubes and tunnels will connect cities to each other and to the hinterlands. Supersonic jets will turn transoceanic journeys into river crossings. The burning of fossil fuels will seem as remote and unsavory as human sacrifice. Trees will blanket the urban centers; the air will refresh our lungs instead of blackening them.
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Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans
We live in Philip K. Dick’s future, not George Orwell’s or Aldous Huxley’s. By Henry Farrell.
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How science fiction feeds the fuel solutions of the future
Fantasies about new power sources for human ambitions go back a century or more. Could these past visions energise our own future? By Iwan Rhys Morus.
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How a $10 Billion Experimental City Nearly Got Built in Rural Minnesota
A new documentary explores the “city of the future” that was meant to provide a blueprint for urban centers across America. By Lorraine Boissoneault.
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How communist Bulgaria became a leader in tech and sci-fi
Tech flourished in communist Bulgaria and so did a body of science fiction asking vital philosophical questions. By Victor Petrov.
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Idiocracy (2006) [Trailer]
Mike Judge
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What Can We Learn from Utopians of the Past?
Four nineteenth-century authors offered blueprints for a better world—but their progressive visions had a dark side. By Adam Gopnik.
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End of the world: MIT prediction from 1973 is proving true
An MIT model predicted when and how human civilization would end. Hint: it's soon. By Paul Ratner.
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1980s Amiga has been running the AC and heat in 19 schools for 30 years
The Grand Rapids Public School district took a big step into the future back in the 1980s when it used money from an energy bond to purchase a Commodore Amiga computer.
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Meet Your iPhone’s Grandparent
How the calculator morphed into the pocket computer—the predecessor of today’s smartphones
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