The world according to Penn Jillette
Here is a short interview with Penn Jillette on what is needed for the prediction of future events to be taken seriously.
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What Will Life Be Like in the Year 2008?
Written Nov, 1968 – IT’S 8 a.m., Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008, and you are headed for a business appointment 300 mi. away. You slide into your sleek, two-passenger air-cushion car, press a sequence of buttons and the national traffic computer notes your destination, figures out the current traffic situation and signals your car to slide out of the garage. Hands free, you sit back and begin to read the morning paper—which is flashed on a flat TV screen over the car’s dashboard. Tapping a button changes the page.
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Introducing The Time Capsule Room
Perhaps the most engaging way to create a good community archive is through the development of a “Time Capsule Room” in the library.
Most libraries will find that the Time Capsule Room takes on a personality of its own, as local people begin to participate in populating the spaces. Ideas about what constitutes a Time Capsule Room will vary from city to city, but it is the ability to differentiate, uniqueness of operation, and variety of perspectives that will give a dimension of personality to the library.
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“Our Look Into the Future” – A Photo Essay
The brilliant artists on Flickr give us a very unique perspective about the future in the images and photos they have taken. Here is a provocative look at the world to come.
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Future Warships May be Invisible
The next generation of warships might be virtually invisible to the human eye, thanks to the development of new stealth technologies.
These new technologies would in fact allow the ships to dodge roaming radars, put heat-seeking missiles off the scent, disguise their own sound vibrations and even reduce the way they distort the Earth’s magnetic field.
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