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The world without the Great Depression looks a lot rosier in hindsight
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In 1950, a popular magazine depicted what an atomic bomb would do to New York City—in gruesome detail
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Could futuristic technology have saved the milkman from extinction?
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Moving is a lot easier if you live inside a giant ball
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A 1981 book predicted that the soldiers of the future could be more like heavily armed policemen than a fighting force
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With video screens and remote control arms, any doctor could make a virtual housecall
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How do you eat an eight-foot-long ear of corn?
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Yep, there was an app for that
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The secret formula for predicting a fantastical yet credible future
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Kids predict the darndest things
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In the years preceding the Internet, futurist books hinted at the massive information infrastructure that was to come
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Amid growing concerns that skyscrapers were blocking sunlight for people on the ground, a British architect proposed a novel solution
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Newlyweds who didn't want to visit the cliched destination of the time, Niagara Falls, dreamt of one day spending their first days as a couple on the moon
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A 1930 book argued that women's "liberation from the dangers of childbirth" would be a crucial first step toward gender equality
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Thankfully, this Super Bowl spectacle never had a wardrobe malfunction
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Why bother with cloning and time travel, when your dream safari awaits on a nearby planet?
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When Dr. Athelstan Spilhaus met President Kennedy in 1962, JFK told him, "The only science I ever learned was from your comic strip."
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Meet the 1920 radio enthusiast who had the foresight to invent the annoying habit of talking on the phone while in the car
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