Artist Ray G. Scarfo's illustration of a semi-permanent moon base in the future. Published in the May 1969 issue of Science Journal, just two months before humans would first set foot on the moon.
This Week in Time Capsules: Optimistic Girl Scouts Bury 200-Year Tube
This week in our time capsule news round-up we have 100-year-old papers that look like they were printed just yesterday, a Girl Scout capsule that won't be opened until the year 2214, and some artifacts in Florida from the ancient Age of Videotape.
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The FDA Just Approved a PillCam The Jetsons Predicted 50 Years Ago
The Jetsons was one of the most important cartoons of all time, having helped shape the way that we talk about the future here in the 21st century. The show predicted many of the technologies we have today. And this week, Americans can check another crazy Jetsonian prediction off the list.
Nearly all experts agree that bacterial and viral diseases will have been virtually wiped out [by the year 2000]. Probably arteriosclerotic heart disease will also have been eliminated. — February 25, 1966 issue of Time magazine
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See Nevada's Hellish Nuclear Moonscape From Above
The 1950s were an optimistic time. Houses and cars were affordable, the economy and the birthrate were booming, and—oh yeah, America was detonating hundreds of nuclear bombs in its own backyard.
8 Viral Sochi Olympics Photos That Are Total Lies
Thousands of images are pouring out of Sochi in the lead-up to the Olympics. And things don't look great. There are unfinished buildings, a lack of winter weather, and an abundance of trash. But don't believe every image you see. Like so much of what gets passed on social media these days, a lot of them aren't exactly what they claim.
How soon will you be able to see over the phone? It may be sooner than you think. For the remarkable new Hughes Tonotron [...] will make possible "face-to-face" telephone calls to and from your office or home. — Print ad in the March 1957 issue of Scientific American
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1990: Pop Music Will Just Be Musical Orgies By 2010
Back in 1985 Tipper Gore testified in front of a Senate committee warning that children were being exposed to all kinds of naughty stuff in modern music. Sex, heresy and violence were destroying good old-fashioned American values. Won't somebody think of the children!
The Forgotten Concept Cars of 1987
Surprise! Welcome to the third installation of The Forgotten Concept Cars of the Year. Here, you'll find a collection of photos of concept cars from the same year that are considered forgotten. Legendary concept cars are not included. Here's one for today: concept cars from 1987. Enjoy!
Every Real-Life Technology Star Trek Predicted
Most hardcore science fiction fans will brush Star Trek off as being just another 'space opera', but all of that drama takes place alongside some wonderful technology.
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That Coke Super Bowl Ad Would Have Been Illegal in 1910s Iowa
Idiots, racists, and old-fashioned xenophobes took to social media this past weekend to express their disgust with Coca-Cola. The international beverage company had the audacity to run an ad during the Super Bowl that featured people singing "America the Beautiful" in different languages. This, of course, was unacceptable to those who believe that the U.S. should be an English-only zone. And these mouthbreathing dunderheads would've felt right at home in states like Iowa and Nebraska during World War I.
Inside the Fakes Factory: My Chat With a Viral Image Creator
It's an astounding sight: Buddha carved into a tall rock formation at the Ngyen Khag Taktsang Monastery in China. People talked breathlessly about how they visited the place, saw it with their own eyes. Except that they didn't. Because it's a fake
17 Cosmic Toys From The Age Of The Space Race
The Space Race between the USA and USSR was the most intensive scientific competition of the twentieth century, and its indirect effects were perceivable even in the toy industry.
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This Ridiculous Victorian-Era Rocking Bath Wasn't Just For Fun
Hydrotherapy was all the rage in the 19th century. Inventors devised countless contraptions to immerse people in water, hoping to restore them to health using nature's favorite liquid. But none were quite as awkward as the invention above: the "rocking bath tub" of 1891.
When a Bar Full of Women Was a Nightmarish Dystopia
Harry Grant Dart had quite an eye for the future. The early 20th century illustrator imagined women driving flying machines
