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Report: Despite many challenges, world faces brighter future Posted: 11 months ago by deepchill
"Although great human tragedies like Iraq and Darfur dominate the news, the vast majority of the world is living in peace, conflicts actually decreased over the past decade," says the 2007 State of the Future report.
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Leaf 'sweat glands' to worsen future flooding Posted: 12 months ago by misswinkle
Tiny pores on the surface of plant leaves that are sensitive to carbon dioxide may contribute significantly to future flooding as a result of increasing atmospheric pollution.
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Our future has been lost never to be found Posted: 4 weeks ago by BernardBlack
The best part about Wired magazine was its "Found" section. An image showing something from the future. The creativity of the pieces were amazing. Sadly Wired has canceled the feature to make room for yet another ad.
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Paleo-Future: the future that wasn't Posted: 12 months ago by TheStep
Shouldn't we have flying cars, moon hotels and meals in a pill by now? This blog looks at the future predicted in the past that never happened.
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The Future of Newspapers Posted: 11 months ago by gratheo
An interesting prediction from Dilbert creator Scott Adams on the future of newspapers in the electronic age.
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Future chronicles Posted: 1 year ago by Neiako
If you can’t predict the future then how has this site gathered together all the major news until 2050? Most frighteningly, Madonna has a new album due in 2024.
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"Do Humans Have 23 years to Go?" Play Superstruct & Find Out Posted: 1 month ago by cactushair
The Institute for the Future is inviting the world to play Superstruct, the worlds first massively multi-player forecasting game. It 's not just about envisioning the future - it's about inventing the future, creating superstructures to solve and counter super threats facing the planet.
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Back To The Future Nike Shoes Posted: 1 year ago by 86Apex
A site that's dedicated to trying to get Nike to manufacture the shoes that Marty McFly wears in Back To The Future 2. I was reminded by this site through the following post.
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Retro Future Posted: 1 year ago by donteatpoop
Remember what the year 2000 was supposed to look like? This is a site dedicated to the overly optimistic views of what was the future.
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The Future of Human Evolution Posted: 1 year ago by VooDooPeacock
What will your descendants look like in five million years?
There are a lot of variables in the equation, including whether or not humans beings will survive at all. This site looks at a bunch of alternate views of a possible future.
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Will Life Be Worth Living in 2000 AD? Posted: 1 year ago by ogri2003
In 1961 Weekend Magazine said:
"What sort of life will you be living 39 years from now? Scientists have looked into the future and they can tell you."
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A Vision of the Future Posted: 1 year ago by ReBoot
Featuring Robin Williams, for your viewing enjoyment. If this was real, I wouldn't know whether to laugh or cry.
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Man travels to the future through Time Vortex under his kitchen sink Posted: 1 year ago by BrownTrout
Once there, he met himself at the age of 70 and filmed it with his camera phone. Yes this wreaks of bovine scattology but it is entertaining.
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The Future of the Web Posted: 11 months ago by zion
A man switches on a tiny wireless chip that has been surgically implanted behind his ear, which then synchs up with the Web wherever he is in the world. An article that presents some interesting predictions of what the Internet will be like in the future.
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Key to All Optical Illusions Discovered Posted: 3 months ago by AutumnLotus
Humans can see into the future, says a cognitive scientist. It's nothing like the alleged predictive powers of Nostradamus, but we do get a glimpse of events one-tenth of a second before they occur.
And the mechanism behind that can also explain why we are tricked by optical illusions.
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Time travellers from the future 'could be here in weeks' Posted: 7 months ago by AutumnLotus
Mathematical physicists at the Steklov Mathematical Institute in Moscow believe that the vast experiment at CERN, the European particle physics centre near Geneva in Switzerland, may turn out to be the world's first time machine
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iTV - TV set of the future? Posted: 2 years ago by moebel
Now that the world has iPhone, where will Apple go next?
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Own Marty McFly's Hoverboard!!! Posted: 3 weeks ago by muppetmaker
A movie memorabilia collector is selling on Ebay his Back to the Future II hoverboard, an original prop still in perfect condition.
If you have $30,000 laying around, drop a bid! The auction takes place on the 1st of August.
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Google index the future Posted: 5 months ago by Pocksucket
Google have developed a new version of their web crawling algorithm that is able to build an accurate model of what the web will look like 24 hours into the future. This includes lottery results sites and reports of sporting events.
This will be formerly announced tomorrow, but a beta version made available today has leaked the news
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Is this the future of news? Posted: 6 months ago by Bornbad
Unedited; uncensored and user-generated!
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