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Predictions From The Father of Science Fiction
Hugo Gernsback's predictions give us a look at the most radical of technological utopianism from the 1920s
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Revisiting Epcot Center on its 30th Birthday
Has the Disney theme park outlived its purpose as a monument to science and technology?
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Recapping “The Jetsons”: Episode 02 – A Date With Jet Screamer
The Jetson family's descent into sex, drugs and rock & roll
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Recapping “The Jetsons”: Episode 01 – Rosey the Robot
Meet George Jetson! The first installment of our 24-part series on the show that would forever change how we view the future
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Trains of Tomorrow, After the War
The wartime inconveniences of traveling by train prompted the promise for "the finest transportation the world has ever seen"
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50 Years of the Jetsons: Why The Show Still Matters
Although it was on the air for only one season, The Jetsons remains our most popular point of reference when discussing the future.
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The Anti-Skyscraper Law That Shaped Sydney, Australia
What happens when public safety clashes with modern architecture?
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Big Apple Apocalypse: 200 Years of Destroying New York City
What is it about New York that compels us to see it obliterated in fiction over and over again?
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My Robot Helper of Tomorrow
Forget flying cars and jetbacks, whatever happened to my cereal-serving robot?
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The Robot Hall of Fame: Vote Rosey 2012
For the first time, Carnegie Mellon University's Robot Hall of Fame is allowing the public to vote on which robots will be inducted
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Crowdfunding a Museum for Alexander Graham Bell in 1922
Long before the age of Kickstarter, Hugo Gernsback used his magazine to garner interest for a monument devoted to the inventor of the telephone
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Yesterday’s Tomorrows: How a Smithsonian Exhibit I Never Saw Changed My Life
Meet the historians who pioneered scholarship of retro-futurism
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Synthetic Food, Smart Pills and… Kangaroo Butlers?
In the 21st century, everyone will be smarter—even animals.
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Hello Mars — This is the Earth!
In 1919, Popular Science magazine imagined how Earthlings might communicate with Mars
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Wernher von Braun’s Martian Chronicles
In 1954, a special issue of Collier's magazine envisioned a ten-ship flotilla to the red planet.
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Worldwide Economic Collapse: Orson Scott Card’s Predictions for 2012
The author of Ender's Game envisioned the imminent end of American power
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1927 Magazine Looks at Metropolis, “A Movie Based On Science”
How filmmakers created a gorgeous, dystopian future
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1954 Flying Car for Sale
A bargain for just $1.25 million. But, you'll need both aviation and auto insurance
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1931′s Remote-Controlled Farm of the Future
The farmer of tomorrow wears a suit to work and sits at a desk that looks oddly familiar to those of us here in the year 2012
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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
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