Futurism articles

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  Taiwan's abandoned resort town and the future that never was

  By Amar Toor on May 14, 2013 04:38 am + 15 comments

  San Zhi is a futuristic resort town that never was. As Design You Trust reports, construction on the Continue reading…

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  Envisioning the home of the 21st century, in 1967

  By Amar Toor on February 7, 2013 04:57 am + 13 comments

  Walter Cronkite didn't get every detail right when he laid out his vision of the 21st century, but Continue reading…

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  Rapture of the nerds: will the Singularity turn us into gods or end the human race?

  By Ben Popper on October 22, 2012 11:00 am + 347 comments

  Hundreds of the world’s brightest minds — engineers from Google and IBM, hedge funds quants, and Continue reading…

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  Steve Jobs discusses 21st century technology in rare 1983 speech

  By Ben Kersey on October 3, 2012 04:55 am + 89 comments

  An additional 40 minutes of a speech that Steve Jobs gave at the International Design Conference in Continue reading…

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  Watch this: 'Mass Effect 3' composer Sascha Dikiciyan's electro-punk short film previews his upcoming 'Doomsday' album

  By Nathan Ingraham on August 3, 2012 11:20 am + 12 comments

  Sascha Dikiciyan's vision of futuristic music has provided the backdrop for a number of notable Continue reading…

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  10 years later, looking back at how 'Minority Report' predicted the future

  By Joshua Kopstein on June 24, 2012 05:19 am + 58 comments

  In the late 90s, when faced with the task of turning Philip K. Dick's The Minority Report into a Continue reading…

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  Watch This: projection mapping turns a 99-year-old dome into a surreal sci-fi light show

  By Joshua Kopstein on June 21, 2012 12:59 am + 9 comments

  Designed by legendary architect Max Berg, the Halla Stulecia in Wrocław, Poland was erected to Continue reading…

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  Drained rivers, nuclear-proof cities, and other retro-futuristic visions of New York

  By Andrew Webster on June 3, 2012 03:47 am + 8 comments

  It's always interesting to see how people from the past envisioned the future, and Oobject has Continue reading…

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  Charting the futures of science fiction

  By Adi Robertson on May 20, 2012 08:36 am + 22 comments

  Everyone who reads science fiction can probably name some of the movements and fads that have come Continue reading…

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  The 'Intelligent Encyclopedia' of the future as imagined in 1982

  By Adi Robertson on April 12, 2012 03:52 pm + 19 comments

  After nearly 250 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica is now being printed exclusively online. In Continue reading…