Depression-Era Teachers Predicted Online Schools Would Look Like This

Depression-Era Teachers Predicted Online Schools Would Look Like This

In 1934 the president of Northwestern University, Walter Dill Scott, predicted that technology would radically change the college experience.

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17 Better Ways to Waste Your Money Than On This Crowdfunded “Flying Car”

17 Better Ways to Waste Your Money Than On This Crowdfunded "Flying Car"

Every six months or so we hear that Paul Moller’s flying car is just a few years away! Too bad we’ve been hearing that for the past 40 years.

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Not Everybody Was Excited About America’s Flying Machine Future

Not Everybody Was Excited About America's Flying Machine Future

In 1953, columnist Henry McLemore made it clear that he hoped to be dead and gone before "the future" arrives. What was McLemore so concerned about? All those damn flying machines — 20 million, in theory — that would be buzzing around by the year 2000.

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The Flying Car Knockoffs of China’s Great Leap Forward

The Flying Car Knockoffs of China's Great Leap Forward

Today, Chinese automakers produce world-class knockoffs of Western car brands. But back in the early 1960s, it was the imaginary cars of the future that China was knocking off.

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Floating Cars: This Is How the Year 2000 Should Have Looked

It’s already 2013, and we are still pretty far away from flying cars, which were predicted decades ago. Then again, maybe we aren’t. Check out these clever photographs, featuring Jetsons-like hovering cars.

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French photographer Renaud Marion captured these photos and tweaked them to make the cars look like they’re floating off the ground. This series of photos are called Air Drive and they’re inspired by how he imagined flying cars would have looked when he was a child.

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I hope to see flying cars on the road (sky?) one day, but then again, I can already imagine the accidents – never mind the insurance premiums.

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Who Wouldn’t Want a Flying Car That Floats?

So, Tim Cook just dropped what he thought was an “Oh, snap!” worthy diss on Microsoft Surface, saying, “I suppose you could design a car that flies and floats, but I don’t think it would do all of those things very well.” But wait. More »