Sep 12
Before an American even reached space, the public was already asking what would come next. The space age artists and designers who were dreaming up what was in store for the astronauts of tomorrow were happy to oblige.
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Sep 12
Earlier this week, the Lt. Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, said that in the future, "65% of grade school kids are going to have a job that hasn’t been invented yet.” If the past has taught us anything, though, it’s that most yet-to-be-invented jobs will never actually exist.
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Sep 11
A team at Disney Research recently developed some pretty amazing technology that lets you transmit sound through your fingertips
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Sep 10
The Toronto Sun has the story of a Canadian family so fed up with modern technology that they’ve reverted back to 1986. And that goes for everything — they’ve ditched their smartphones and closed their social media accounts. They’re listening to audio cassettes, using fax machines, and even wearing their hair in mullets! In a sense, they’re a bit like an Amish family if the Amish thought that every piece of tech developed after 1986 (rather than the 19th century) was the distraction that would keep them from being a tightly knit family unit.
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Sep 10
Speed-dialing! Electronic exchanges! Call forwarding! Okay, it’s no gold iPhone, but back in 1965 (when Apple CEO Timmy Cook was just four years old), this was the future of phones!
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Sep 09
Many an armchair futurist seems absolutely convinced that Google Glass might soon render street crime obsolete. The thinking goes that when everyone is under the watchful eye of a web-connected faceputer, your common street hoodlum will no longer be able to rob with impunity. We’ve been down this road before.
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Sep 06
This week we have a school in England that filled its new capsule with the latest in tech, a casket from the Reagan administration that for some reason includes biscuits and gravy, and a public ceremony in Florida which will show off a capsule for the retired space shuttle Atlantis. And a town that hates fun. Like, really hates fun.
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Sep 05
The ARPANET made its first host-to-host connection
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Sep 05
Welcome to the future! a Samsung rep proclaimed during the company’s new product presentation in Berlin yesterday. Yes, something out of sci-fi! he beamed. The rep was wearing the new Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch, proudly showing it off for the journalists in the room and the tech geeks watching along at home. The future has arrived… again, I suppose.
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Sep 04
Do you ever look at the ancient pyramids in Egypt and think, "Why isn’t there a gigantic carnival ride on top of those?" Well, you wouldn’t be alone. Because somebody asked that very question in 1931.
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