The future of yesterday

An inflatable module docked to the international space station? What madness. I thought. Yet, in 1992 ...

A discontinued dishwasher leaves a great pedagogical legacy: the one that teaches the use of technology in small spaces. Will come back?

Inventions unsuccessful, or premature, or boasted. They've all been important - but take a look at what flops they hit!

An ancient stone slab found in a French burial is the oldest known map in Europe. It shows us that we should not underestimate the cartographic knowledge of the Bronze Age.

Before zooming, much earlier. Almost a century earlier. Videophone has always had supporters and financiers, but it has always failed. Why? Here is the story of Picturephone.

The earth has been flat for real, but not as the conspiracists think. This is what the "Boring Billion" just assumed is and why it is surprising

Sinclair C5, half ebike and half Twizy in the 80's planet. A vehicle that seemed to belong to the future. And in fact, that present did not spin.

Victor Glushkov, the man who made the internet before the USA and designed the Soviet future that never had the light.