20 years ago a magazine told us: here are the forecasts for the next millennium
A magazine from 20 years ago, on the eve of 1997, lined up the most accurate list of predictions for 2020. And some solemn absurdities. This is how they saw us.
A magazine from 20 years ago, on the eve of 1997, lined up the most accurate list of predictions for 2020. And some solemn absurdities. This is how they saw us.
The market also decides how long we can spend in the bathroom: StandardToilet presents a toilet that makes the toilet break hell after 5 minutes.
The skyscrapers of the future will extend social life from the streets to the sky. Here are the projects born or started in this year that is coming to an end.
Orbiting space debris is a serious problem. The only solution is to remove them: ClearSpace, a new ESA mission, is the first in the world to deal with it.
A game that turns real roads into crime scenes thanks to augmented reality. Put Pokémon Go aside, Misadventure in Little Lon is serious stuff.
Body hacking will be an increasingly popular practice. Here is how we are already transforming our body and what future developments will be.
The shopping of the future is at a crossroads: it will transform our shopping centers into hyper-connected micro cities where experience wins over product. Or it will become an activity that we will delegate completely to an artificial intelligence.
The new birth control pill to be taken only once a month will help prevent pregnancies resulting from taking errors.
Here are at least three technologies that have changed the world in the last decade, and a look at how things might change as we move into the next one.
New construction methods, bright ceilings, futuristic car interiors, even batteries: transparent and enhanced wood is the most promising material of the future
Electric ships are a big step forward for the environment: maritime transport is highly polluting. This is why robot container carriers are welcome.
Objects “covered” with moving images? Just one of the applications of the Dynaflash projector and its 1000fps technology
Effective diagnostics, different energy, new species in the skies and more: forecasts for the future of the world in the next 10 years? Full of interesting things.
In “His Dark Materials”, the new HBO series, they perform ordinary service. In our reality no. But airships are making a serious comeback.
Magnetically upload viruses and carry out magnetic blood cleaning with a magnet? As absurd as it sounds, here's why the idea can work.
Future wars will be faster and more technological, but less human than ever: welcome to the era of robot soldiers. There is a perfect place to test advanced weapons: they are the Wallops Islands, a small patch of land off the coast of Virginia that seems to have come straight from Asimov's pen. If a fishing boat had passed there a year ago he would have seen half a dozen dinghies circulating in the area: a closer look would have revealed that the dinghies had no one on board. … Read more
In summary, the 20s will present a mix of very good, very bad and very strange things: here are 11 predictions about the future of the next decade.
Lexus LF-30 is an open window on the brand's electric future. A wonderful concept that projects us directly into 2030.
Aluminum (also from used cans) and non-polluting electrolytes. Every 2500km you change them in 90 seconds and they recycle. Aluminum-air batteries? A bomb.
Tiny needles that are released from a capsule taken orally, and inject the drug directly into the intestine: here are the new injections.
Neil and Moon two transhumans, members of a new "middle species" that represents a deeper connection between humans and technology.