We've always wanted to know what comes next.
We've always breathlessly anticipated things to come.
And we're usually wrong.
We're digging into yesterday's visions of tomorrow. Along with the ways they've inspired innovation.
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The Jetsons premiered in 1962 and became the codification of what the future family looked like.
With its comedically played predictions about automation and changing social norms, it gave us a look at what was to come.
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18 Oct 2023
Based on a True Story: Lucian's Journey to the Moon
The satirist Lucian of Samosata once tackled the over-the-top stories of world travels that were so popular during his day.
And the result?
A trip to the moon and back - written in the 2nd century AD.
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11 Oct 2023
The World of Tomorrow: 1939 New York World's Fair
80 years ago, the future looked considerably different.
The 1939 New York World's Fair offered a "futurama," a look at the "world of tomorrow."
Now, just what did this massive exhibit portray?
And what would change in the few short years that followed?
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4 Oct 2023
Cryptic Forecasts: The Quatrains of Nostradamus
Nostradamus is perhaps the most famous name involved in the business of predicting the future.
But his work has been broadly challenged because it is subject to interpretation.
He densely layers his work to obscure the meaning.
In today's episode, we work to make sense of what the seer meant when he penned his quatrains.
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23 Aug 2023
The Universal Reformation: The Rosicrucian Prophecy of Enlightenment
In the era of the Reformation there arose an organization that, like Lutheranism dawning at the time, was emblazoned with the symbol of a rosy cross.
Thus, the name "Rosicrucians."
The secret society had a big vision of the future though - a dream that the whole world was about to wake up...
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16 Aug 2023
Building Bigger: Étienne-Louis Boullée's Tributes to the Age of Enlightenment
Étienne-Louis Boullée was a visionary - and his visions belong among the greatest ideas that have never been realized.
Among his great designs are his Cenotaph dedicated to Isaac Newton.
His towering structures make us imagine what could have been - in a future that embraced neoclassicism and took it to new heights.
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2 Aug 2023
Designing Things to Come: Buckminster Fuller's Life and Legacy
Buckminster Fuller was ahead of his time.
He was a man with his eye on efficiency and the common good.
What do we learn from the thinker who gave us "Starship Earth"?
And which of his ideas can we pick up and run with today.
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26 Jul 2023
Prototyping Tomorrow: The Foresight and Shortfalls of Disney's EPCOT
Before the visionary's city on a hill could be built, the visionary died.
Today, we're looking at what Walt Disney saw from afar - what EPCOT was intended to be.
And what the sprawling metropolis he envisioned became.
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19 Jul 2023
The Reawakening & Tomorrow: The View of the Future from the Renaissance
The world was expanding.
And the dreams of the Renaissance didn't just include this terrestrial ball.
Some were thinking higher - of going to moon itself.
It took us some four hundred years for a country that didn't even exist yet to get there.
Today, we're exploring the world to come in view of Renaissance.
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15 May 2023
From talking to animals to space mining to immortality: the future according to Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke said that the more believable your predictions are about the future, the less likely they are to be true.
Join us as we take a tour of the awfully familiar predictions Clarke made some 80 years ago.
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