Browse Items (116 total)

John Elfreth Watkins, What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years, 1900

Speculation about technological and social progress in the coming 20th century

Tags: 1900; Future; Predictions

Nikola Tesla, The Problem of Increasing Human Energy, 1900

An extended description of the revolutionary potential of Tesla's inventions.

Tags: Automata; Electricity; Energy; Future; Tesla

George Forbes, Harnessing Niagara, 1895

A description of the Niagara hydro-electric project by a member of the International Niagara Commission.

Tags: Electrical Engineering; Future; Niagara Falls

'A Place for Hype', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2007; 2007-10-5; Alvin Toffler; B-52 bombers; David Edgerton; flat-pack bookcases; Future; History of Science; Horses; Hype; Kalashnikovs; Robert Hughes; Social change; STS; Tenner, Edward

'Short Cuts', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2007; 2007-1-25; Bill Gates; Botnets; Engineering; Future; Information Technology; Lanchester, John; Technological Spam

'THE LAST DROP', The New Yorker

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-10-23; aquifers; civil engineering; conflict; Engineering; Future; Pollution; Specter, Michael; water management; wells

'Red Science', London Review of Books

Tags: 2000s; 2006; 2006-9-3; Andrew Brown; Biography; Chemistry; Communism; Crystallography; Freudianism; Future; Hobsbawm, Eric; JD Bernal; John Kendrew; Lord Mountbattan; Politics; Science fiction; Sexuality; X-Ray Crystallography

'The cars of the elect will be driverless', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1996; 1996-10-31; apocalypse; Critiques and Comments; Driverless cars; Future; Futures; Harold Bloom; Kermode, Frank; Millennium; STS

'Why sounding the alarm on chemical contamination is not necessarily alarmist', London Review of Books

Tags: 1990s; 1996; 1996-5-9; Chemical Products; Chemistry; contamination; Dianne Dumanoski; Future; Giddens, Anthony; Insecticides; Pollution; Theo Colborn

'CRISIS IN THE HOT ZONE', The New Yorker

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-11-9; Disease; DNA; Ebola; Future; Medicine; Monkeys; Preston, Richard; Virus

'CRISIS IN THE HOT ZONE', The New Yorker

Tags: 1990s; 1992; 1992-10-26; Disease; DNA; Ebola; Future; Medicine; Monkeys; Preston, Richard; Virus

'Chronicle of an Epidemic', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980s; 1988; 1988-5-19; AIDS; Disease; Epidemic; Future; Medicine; Michael Lesy; Randy Shilts; Robert Kilodny; Ryle, John; Sexual Behaviour; Vaccine; Virginia Johnson; William Masters

'THE STAFFS OF LIFE V-THE FUTURE OF THE PLANET', The New Yorker

Tags: 1980s; 1985; 1985-3-11; Biology; Future; Kahn, E. J.; Plant Sciences; soybeans; world hunger

'Futures', London Review of Books

Tags: 1980s; 1981; 1981-5-2; Dunn, John; Forecasting; Future; Other; Progress; Robert Nisbet

'THE WORLD'S RESOURCES III-HUMAN ENERGY', The New Yorker

Tags: 1980; 1980-4-7; 1980s; Barnet, Richard J.; Engineering; factories; Future; Multinationals; Planning; Production

'II-THE ANALYTICAL ENGINE', The New Yorker

Tags: 1960s; 1963; 1963-10-26; Bernstein, Jeremy; Computers; Engineering; Future; History; Information Technology; Machine Learning; Perceptron

'Electrifying Football', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1950s; 1956; 1956-11-9; Broadcasting; Design and Invention; Electronic brains; Engineering; football; Future; invention; Partch, Virgil; Sport

'Our Crowded Sky', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1950s; 1956; 1956-8-31; Aeronautics and Aerospace; air lanes; Aviation; Engineering; Future; White, Theodore H.

'Breakaway Plane', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1950s; 1956; 1956-6-22; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Aviation; Engineering; Flight; Future; Haggerty Jr., James J.; supersonic

'Four Great Medical Triumphs Just Ahead', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1950s; 1956; 1956-6-8; Cancer; Disease; Future; heart trouble; Laurence, William L.; Medical research; Medicine; Mental illness; Virus

'Turbocars', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1950s; 1955; 1955-6-24; Automobile; Cars; Engineering; Future; Haggerty Jr., James J.; Jet power; Mechanical Engineering

'You Name It---They'll Invent It', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1950s; 1955; 1955-4-29; Design and Invention; Engineering; Future; Heinz, W.C.; invention; mousetrap; plastic home; Research laboratory

'The Navy Comes Up With a Real Flying Saucer""', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1950s; 1955; 1955-4-29; Aeronautics; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Engineering; Flying Saucer; Future; Haggerty Jr., James J.; Military; Navy; one-man flying machine

'Stereatronics---A New Science That Will Change Your Way of Life', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1950s; 1954; 1954-9-3; Electrical Engineering; Electronics; Engineering; Future; Ryan, Cornelius; Steratronics

'A New Electrick Car', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1950s; 1953; 1953-10-30; Cohn, Howard; Electric Car; Energy Engineering; Engineering; Future

'The Atom-Liner', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1950s; 1953; 1953-5-23; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Aviation; Engineering; Future; Haggerty Jr., James J.; nuclear transport

'Will They Climb Mt. Everest Now?', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1950s; 1953; 1953-4-4; Climbing; Earth Sciences; Future; Geography; Shipton, Eric

'EMERGENCY!', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1950s; 1953; 1953-3-14; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Engineering; Future; space travel; survival in space

'Testing the Men', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1950s; 1953; 1953-3-7; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Engineering; Future; space travel; survival in space

'Man's Survival in Space', Colliers Weekly

Tags: 1950s; 1953; 1953-2-28; Aeronautics and Aerospace; Engineering; experts; Future; Rockets; space travel