The future of yesterday

The genesis and history of Morse code, and how this mode of communication has changed the history of man forever.

Joint efforts, scientific transparency and cooperation: 1957 was a magical year for the future, and until now never repeated.

Science fiction does not foresee the future but inspires it, indeed: it influences it. And these three works contain unambiguous evidence.

The future of the world seen a hundred years ago: not so different, not so exciting. Can we sincerely blame our ancestors?

Orwell and Huxley perhaps wrote the two greatest dystopian novels in history. They were pupils and teachers, but which of them has better predicted the future we live in today?

This concept tells best of all the "future of yesterday" we imagined in 1990: the Nissan Cocoon is not a (ugly) car, it is an amarcord.

The Japanese affection for the fax, a technology we have almost abandoned, reveals many possible things about the future of the Rising Sun.

The incredible discovery can change the way we think about how some of the first humans created tools like these.

A small legendary place (how many of you knew of its existence?) Finally opens to the public. Eiffel's “secret” office can now be visited.

Doggerland, the "heart of Europe" swept away by a tsunami 8200 years ago is reborn in a Dutch exhibition.