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100 Years Of Failure: 10 Technologies We Were Promised But Never Got

6:00AM December 11, 2009 | Paul Milo

In Your Flying Car Awaits, author Paul Milo discusses “robot butlers, lunar vacations and other dead-wrong predictions of the 20th Century.” Here are 10 calamitous tech failures. Even the ones that did make it aren’t anything like the original vision. More »

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Videophones As Imagined In 1910 Still Had Dancing Webcam Girls

6:20AM September 21, 2009 | Jack Loftus

I’m ashamed to admit I was surprised someone had the videophone figured out as early as 1910. I also need to apologise to that old crazy guy in the park—your Prohibition-era webcam stories may have been true after all! More »