Today, there’s a lot of scaremongering in the media surrounding online trolling. When people are being terrible to each other, there’s often this knee-jerk reaction to blame the technology rather than acknowledge that human beings have always been just plain horrible. Case in point: the radio trolls of 1910.
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According to the Associated Press, Iran’s aerospace program announced today that it plans to launch a Persian cat into space by March. The Iranians have sent a mouse, a turtle, some worms, and even a monkey into space. But this real-life Space Cat would be the first feline to journey out of Earth’s cozy confines in nearly 50 years.
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This week we have a message in a bottle which could be the oldest ever found, 1970s microfilm that was hidden inside a missile in Kansas, and the single coolest (and furthest traveled) time capsule ever assembled.
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Mike Rugnetta over at the PBS Idea Channel has an interesting video
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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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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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A team at Disney Research recently developed some pretty amazing technology that lets you transmit sound through your fingertips
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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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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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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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