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The Real Story Behind Those Viral Time Magazine Covers About Global Cooling in the 1970s

The Summer Intern Who Ate His Lunch on a Nuclear Bomb in 1955

Harry Butz and His Genius Idea For Movie Disks 100 Years Ago

Things to Come: The 1940s Newspaper Comic That Gave Americans a Humorous Peek at Tomorrow

Reagan-Era Futurists Thought Iran Would Get Nukes by 2020

This Electric Car Ad From 1921 Asked Drivers To Be Brutally Honest With Themselves

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1970s Doctor Predicted Elderly Would Have 'First Class Status' By 2025

'I Think in 2025 Furbys Will Try to Conquer the Universe': How 1990s Kids Imagined the Year 2025

How Newspapers Talked About Bitcoin in the Early 2010s

The Follyphone and Our Ridiculous Future

Elon Musk and the Political Profile That Did Not Age Well

This Airship Went Missing in 1889 and Was Never Seen Again

Sterilization of 'Undesirables' Had Overwhelming Public Approval in the U.S. During the 1930s

This Futuristic 'Water Sport Wheel' Doesn't Make Any Sense But It Sure Looks Fun Anyway

“Cooking perhaps will not be done at all on any large scale at home. At any rate it will be a much less disgusting process than it is to-day.”

Amazing 1960s Predictions About Satellites, Email, and the Internet

I wrote about some of the time capsules scheduled to be opened in 2025. One has a 1975 Chevy Vega inside.

U.S. Time Capsules Scheduled to be Opened in 2025, Filled with Pogs, Money, and Even a Car

I love that some of the first in-flight movies had live orchestras playing on the ground via radio to accompany the silent movies passengers were watching

5 Old Ideas for the Internet That Can Help Us Imagine a Better Future

What Tech Did Millennials Predict Would Be Obsolete by Now?

150 Years of Predictions About America's First Woman President

What Inspired the Creators of The Jetsons?

Euphonia, the Incredible Speaking Machine of the 1840s (Which I Hope Is Real)

The 'Vaguely Ominous' Coffee Robot of 1967 That Was Going to Take Your Job

Have Astronauts Ever Voted for Donald Trump From Space?

What the Failure of 3D-TV Can Tell Us About the Future of Tech Inevitability

Was This 1943's Crime-Fighting Vehicle of the Future or Just a 'Glorified Jukebox'?

Fixing the Broken Body of the Future, According to the 1980s

Every Prediction is a Rorschach Test

This Ball-Wheel Train of 1933 Was the Future of Transportation

Denver Was Supposed to be America's Movie Broadcasting Capital of the Future

Hope and the Visceral Feeling of Tomorrow

What the Future Looked Like in 2004

Future Dogs Will be Small, Short-Haired, and Better at Dodging Traffic According to This 1935 Article

5 Predictions for the Future of the U.S. Legal System in 1956

This Video From the End of the Cold War Told Top Secret Nuclear Lab Workers to Not Let Down Their Guard

G. Gordon Liddy's 1989 Predictions About Terrorism, the Soviets, and an Attack on the U.S. Capitol

What the Future Looked Like on One Given Day in 1965

This 1984 Article About Meritocracy and Who Would Be Running the U.S. in 2024 Was Depressingly Accurate

Paying College Athletes, Cures for Cancer, and Transatlantic Flying: How Teachers of 1930 Imagined the Future

Things to Come: The 1940s Newspaper Comic That Gave Americans a Humorous Peek at Tomorrow

Listen to the Synanon Cult Leader's Most Infamous Radio Broadast

A Future With Indoor Smoking Might Be the Oddest Choice in the New Movie 'Civil War'

Scientists of 1941 Predicted We'd Be Watching the Eclipse From the Moon With Atomic-Powered Spaceships

The Movies U.S. Politicians Really Didn't Want the World to See in the 1950s

RIP Vernor Vinge, Sci-Fi Writer Who Popularized the Tech Singularity in the 1980s

'The Second TV Revolution': TV Guide's Predictions From 1964 About the Future of Television

Thomas Edison Had Quite a Few Misses In These Tech Predictions From 1910