Here’s What We Know About the Hundred Mile-Long Linear City they’re Building in the Desert

The opportunity to design and build an entire city from scratch sounds like the dream of every child (and child at heart) in possession of a Lego set and an imagination, and this is exactly what NEOM, the team behind The Line, a new sci-fi city currently underway in Saudi Arabia and set to be…

Inside the Airtight Time Capsule Room Sealed in 1940, to Open in Six-Thousand Years

With all the Marty McFly “Back to the Future” fever that’s taken over the internet recently, taking a look inside the mother of all time capsules is probably the perfect way to finish up the week. The “Crypt of Civilization”, is an airtight room at Oglethorpe University in Georgia, USA, that was sealed up in 1940, containing a wealth…

Meet the Hollywood Bombshell Who Invented the Basis for Modern WIFI

If this beautiful Hollywood starlet looks a little bored or unimpressed while posing in her rather ridiculous glitzy get-up, it’s because she probably was; her mind elsewhere– for instance, oh say … masterminding the breakthrough technology that would bring us the basis for modern-day WiFi and Bluetooth. Hedy Lamarr was voted the most desirable pin-up girl during World War…

French Retro Futurism as told by 1950s Chocolate Wrappers

My favourite cartoon as a kid was The Jetsons, hands down. I loved how everything was in a glass dome and you could take a shuttle to a resort at “Las Venus” at the drop of a hat. You can often find me rummaging through Flickr’s online archives of vintage stuff, which is how I came across this series of retros-futurist…

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These Futurist 18th Century Observatories were probably built by Time Travellers

To add to the mystery, no one is actually sure when they were built. Located at several sites scattered around central and Northern India, it’s been estimated the colossal astronomy instruments were constructed as early as 1710. But is it just us, or do these structures look like they came straight off a Star Wars…

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Underwater Cities, Floating Islands and Space Elevators: Supercities of the Future

Straight out of a Jetson’s cartoon, let’s take a look at a few cities of the future that are actually real possibilities… 1. Floating Megacities Self-contained, self-sufficient monolithic sea-standing cities have recently been proposed that could one day be the solution for refugees of natural disasters. The most famous and most advanced proposal yet is…

Flying Cars and Underwater Croquet: France in the 21st Century

According to some artists’ predictions of the future in the late 19th century, France is way behind. A series of futuristic drawings set in the year 2000 by Jean-Marc Côté and other French artists were published at the turn of the century in France on cigarette boxes and postcards. Two things to note. 1) The…

Video of a Man talking to his past 12 year-old self will Make your Day

Actor, filmmaker and overall awesome human being, Jeremiah McDonald left a tape for himself 20 years ago to watch in the future. At the age of 32, he pours himself a drink and begins to have a conversation with his prepubescent self…. Clearly an out-of-the-box thinker from a young age, the adorable 12 year-old version…

Inside the Imaginarium of a Solarpunk Architect

Imagine a world in which nature is intertwined with the industrial: giant lotus flowers replace concrete skyscrapers; an urban forest forms a city constantly in shift through a tree’s life cycle. This is the imaginarium of Belgian architect Luc Schuiten. To discover his work is to fall under the spell of a colourful cosmos, where…

Here’s What a Futurist World’s Fair Looked like Behind the Iron Curtain

The World’s Fairs used to capture the public’s imagination. From the millions who attended such iconic Fairs as the ones held in New York in 1939 and 1964, to the nostalgia they’re viewed with today, the World’s Fairs were places where people could catch glimpses of a futuristic better world; seeing such technological marvels as…