art Artists pay tribute to 2001: A Space Odyssey at the half-century mark Andrea James

science fiction Science fiction, predicting the present, the adjacent possible, and trumpian comic dystopias Cory Doctorow

Games The Polak Game: an exercise to help reveal your theories of the future Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Charlie Stross's CCC talk: the future of psychotic AIs can be read in today's sociopathic corporations Cory Doctorow

podcasts Erik Davis's Expanding Mind podcast: the Voyager Record, Institute for the Future, and optimism David Pescovitz

art Exhibit of the futuristic New York City that never was David Pescovitz

video Here's a great rundown of major moments to come between now and 2050 Andrea James

happy mutants William Gibson: what we talk about, when we talk about dystopia Cory Doctorow

science fiction Bruce Sterling: science fiction won't make the future better Cory Doctorow

futurism A great look back at Soviet futurism Andrea James

books Animated interviews with "futurists" Ayn Rand, Kurt Vonnegut, and Aldous Huxley David Pescovitz

science fiction Mary Shelley's Frankenstein shows us how science fiction predicts the present and shapes the future Cory Doctorow

Technology New podcast about the future from Mark Frauenfelder and David Pescovitz David Pescovitz

happy mutants Bruce Sterling's SXSW 2017 keynote: what should humans do? Cory Doctorow

futurism A futurist looks to the past to understand the present "Gutenberg Moment" David Pescovitz

art Illustrations depict future noir in brooding shapes and shadows Andrea James

futurism Xerox's 1979 vision for the office of the future David Pescovitz

happy mutants Normal: Warren Ellis's story of futurists driven mad by staring into the abyss of tomorrow Cory Doctorow

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Old school 1916 ad chides Congress for not investing in pneumatic tubes for first class mail delivery Cory Doctorow