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In 1900, a civil engineer called John Elfreth Watkins made a number of predictions about what the world would be like in 2000.

Here’s what’s become of them.

“Understanding how we decipher a great historical event written in the book of rocksmay be as interesting as the event itself.”—Walter…

The blog of Neil Cohn, PhD, exploring the structure and cognition of drawing, visual communication, and the visual language of comics.

On the 11th of January 1982 twenty-two computer scientists met to discuss an issue with ‘computer mail’ (now known as email).

Interview with Balaji Srinivasan on The Tim Ferriss Show podcast

Historian William Rosenau investigates the May 19th Communist Organization in a new book about the little-known militant group

Will we end the Great Stagnation? Here are the technologies I'm watching in the next decade.

This material remains under copyright and is reproduced by kind permission of the Orwell Estate and Penguin Books. Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases. In Gandhi’s case the questions one  feels... Read more »