Software, 5 of the biggest flops ever
With great power comes great responsibility. This also applies to software: if it's a flop it ruins the company and the customer too.
With great power comes great responsibility. This also applies to software: if it's a flop it ruins the company and the customer too.
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.
A new archaeological discovery from the Roman era distorts the dating of the birth of the lagoon city.
The historical revisionism of the Nazis came to overturn theology as well. A purpose-built institute was building a future religion based on an anti-Semitic Jesus
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.