Julia Child Loved Science but Would Hate Today’s Food

It's her 100th birthday today, and while the master chef loved science she would have hated today's laboratory produced food
August 15, 2012 | By Rose Eveleth

Olympic Hurdling Record Broken in 1.5 Seconds – On Google Doodle

Programmers use a few lines of code to crack the Google Doodle hurdling puzzle. The rest of us still press the arrow keys frantically.
August 10, 2012 | By Rose Eveleth

Amelia Earhart, Fashionista

A few highlights of coverage celebrating Amelia Earhart's 115th birthday.
July 24, 2012 | By Rachel Nuwer

Man or Computer? Can You Tell the Difference?

Could you be fooled by a computer pretending to be human? Probably
July 2012 | By Brian Christian

Where Do All Those Facebook Photos Go?

On the outer boundaries of the Arctic Circle lies a massive construction project funded by Facebook: the future home of thousands of server farms
July 2012 | By Mark Strauss

1987 Predictions From Bill Gates: “Siri, Show Me Da Vinci Stuff”

The co-founder of Microsoft worried that, in the information age, people would prefer synthesized reality.
June 27, 2012 | By Matt Novak

The Evolution of the Homepage

Using the WayBack Machine, we looked back at how the homepage has changed since the early days of the Internet
June 04, 2012 | By K. Annabelle Smith

Jobs of the Future: How Accurate Were the Soothsayers of 1982 At Predicting Today’s Top Careers?

College graduates take note: Your dream career as a robot psychologist or nasal technologist is just around the corner
May 15, 2012 | By Matt Novak

Resurrecting the Dead With Computer Graphics

As computer graphics improved in the 1980s and 1990s, people imagined that actors like Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe and even a Laurence Olivier/Abraham Lincoln mash-up would star in the movies of tomorrow
April 30, 2012 | By Matt Novak

The Magazine of the Future (on floppy disk!)

More than 20 years before the iPad, an entrepreneur saw the potential of interactive, digital magazines
April 23, 2012 | By Matt Novak

From the Smithsonian Collections: Famous Footwear

Famous footwear of the Smithsonian collections, from Chinese foot-binding booties to Dorothy's ruby slippers
April 10, 2012 | By Sarah C. Rich

Richard Clarke on Who Was Behind the Stuxnet Attack

America's longtime counterterrorism czar warns that the cyberwars have already begun—and that we might be losing
April 2012 | By Ron Rosenbaum

Top Ten Most-Destructive Computer Viruses

Created by amateur hackers, underground crime syndicates and government agencies, these powerful viruses have done serious damage to computer networks worldwide
March 20, 2012 | By Sharon Weinberger

The iPad of 1935

Yep, there was an app for that.
March 07, 2012 | By Matt Novak

One Library for the Entire World

In the years preceding the Internet, futurist books hinted at the massive information infrastructure that was to come.
February 21, 2012 | By Matt Novak

Santa’s Trusty Robot Reindeer

A special visit from the Ghost of Christmas Retro-Future
December 23, 2011 | By Matt Novak

1968′s Computerized School of the Future

A forward-looking lesson plan predicted that "computers will soon play as significant and universal a role in schools as books do today"
November 16, 2011 | By Matt Novak

Jaron Lanier’s Virtual Reality Future

The father of virtual reality believed technology promised infinite possibilities. Now, he worries that it's entrapping us.
October 28, 2011 | By Matt Novak

A Tribute to a Great Artist: Steve Jobs

Through mastering calligraphy in college, Jobs learned to think like an artist
October 06, 2011 | By Henry Adams

Q and A with Nick Stanhope, Creator of Historypin

By merging old photographs with new mapping technology, this site fuses new connections between the generations
August 31, 2011 | By Megan Gambino

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