Computers
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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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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
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Big Data or Too Much Information?
We now create an enormous amount of digital data every day on smart phones, social networks and sensors. So how do you make sense of all of it?
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The Magazine of the Future (on floppy disk!)
More than 20 years before the iPad, an entrepreneur saw the potential of interactive, digital magazines
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Top Ten Most-Destructive Computer Viruses
Created by underground crime syndicates and government agencies, these powerful viruses have done serious damage to computer networks worldwide
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The iPad of 1935
Yep, there was an app for that
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One Library for the Entire World
In the years preceding the Internet, futurist books hinted at the massive information infrastructure that was to come
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Santa’s Trusty Robot Reindeer
A special visit from the Ghost of Christmas Retro-Future
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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"
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Examining Telecommuting the Scientific Way
A trial at a company in China finds telecommuting workers are more productive than their counterparts in the office
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Jaron Lanier’s Virtual Reality Future
The father of virtual reality believed technology promised infinite possibilities. Now, he worries that it's entrapping us
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A Tribute to a Great Artist: Steve Jobs
Through mastering calligraphy in college, Jobs learned to think like an artist
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Q and A with Bill Moggridge
The director of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum discusses the future of computing and design
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Jane McGonigal on How Computer Games Make You Smarter
The "alternate reality game" designer looks to develop ways in which people can combine play with problem-solving
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Postmodernism's New Typography
In an act of rebellion against the prevailing Sans serif aesthetic, designers looked to celebrate creativity in their digital fonts
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Q and A: Irish Artist John Gerrard
Artist John Gerrard uses 360-degree photography and 3-D gaming software to create a virtual reality
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