Articles Tagged with #future
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A Rare Look Inside the Svalbard Global Seed Vault
A rare look inside the Svalbard Global Seed Vault—“the world’s most important freezer”—which is closed for about 350 days a year.
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Theremini Says Hello!
The theremin is one of the oldest electronic musical instruments in history. The “theremini,” its new little brother, is flat-out adorable.
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Our Machines of Loving Grace
When you’re not doing anything meaningful, why do it yourself?
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The Clock of the Long Now
Like a Stonehenge in the present day, the Clock of the Long Now is a project to build a clock that can operate for 10,000 years.
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Time-Lapse of the 2015 Perseid Meteor Shower
While you were (probably) sleeping, Earth was treated to its annual viewing of the Perseid cloud.
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Bree Newsome scaled the State House flagpole and removed the Confederate flag
“Newsome was halfway up the 30-foot pole when police demanded that she climb back down, but she continued upward and removed the flag.”
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Opinions
Against the Clock
The invasion of the Apple Watch is imminent. While the technology future it heralds is exciting, some of our wrists are already spoken for.
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New York, New York
Cities Don’t ♥ Us
Our urban future is upon us, city planners tell us, but residents’ on-again, off-again relationship with their surroundings makes them want to say goodbye to all that.
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The Armchair Futurist
The Long Thanatopsis
Over the next few decades, baby boomers will reinvent how America dies. That gives Generation X one last thing to roll its eyes about, as it follows a step behind.
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Apocalypse Because Humans
Big Water
The California Dream is made possible by old water and big water. Unfortunately, the former doesn’t care about us, and the latter’s running dry. A native reports from the wine country, where fires loom.
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Gallery
The Age of Axe Shower Gel
Sumptuous, extremely close-up paintings of hair gel, body wash, and other beauty products, using 5-hour Energy powder, Viagra, and MDMA to create pigments along the way.
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The Nostalgia Cycle
Burying the Present
Thirty years ago, two friends created a vision of the future—a space opera put to tape—and buried it in a time capsule. Listening again today, it turns out we remember the past as it never quite was.