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People living in the year 2020 have plenty of options for talking over video chat: Skype, FaceTime, Facebook Portal,…
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A lot of things were supposed to kill newspapers in the 20th century. There was radio, then TV, then the internet.…
Mar 28 2013
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Anytime the government tries to ban something there are usually loud warnings about slippery slopes and guesses as…
Sep 10 2012
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When we look at visions of the future from the 20th century we often imagine the lone inventor or solitary artist…
Jul 31 2012
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Yesterday, we looked at Wernher von Braun's 1954 vision for a manned mission to Mars. But long before people…
Mar 8 2012
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This 1913 newspaper advertisement for The Arcade Bakery in Placerville, California insisted that the bigger the…
Nov 14 2011
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Last week I had two friends from the Bay Area over to my apartment in Los Angeles. They recently moved to San…
Nov 2 2011
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The city of Burbank, California was incorporated in 1911 with a population of just 500. Today the population is just…
Sep 27 2011
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After the first successful powered flight by the Wright Brothers in 1903, it seemed like only a matter of time…
May 26 2009
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These days, SF thrillers in which natural disasters end human life as we know it are mainstream fare. But long…
Apr 15 2009
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Paving the way for Vulcans, Slan, Espers, Professor X and Babylon 5's Lyta Alexander, SF writers of the Pre-Golden…
Mar 18 2009
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The March 7, 1912 Spirit Lake Beacon (Spirit Lake, IA) published a piece by V.A. Arnold titled, "The Public School…
Feb 16 2009
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Long before Alan Moore asked "Who will watch the Watchmen?" science fiction writers of the Pre-Golden Age (1904-33)…
Jan 12 2009
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During science fiction's Pre-Golden Age (1904-33), writers dreamed up mechanical and quasi-organic humanoids so…
Dec 15 2008
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Click to viewSome of the most gorgeous, evocative, and strange science fiction art you've ever seen comes from the…
Nov 29 2008
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With Wall-E director Andrew Stanton working on a film based on Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1917 novel A Princess of Mars,…
Nov 29 2008
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Earlier this year, I formulated an eccentric but strict periodization scheme, in which the Nineteen-Oughts (not to…