The past future

According to a prediction by the Rand Institute from the sixties of the 20th century, in the current decade we were supposed to meet aliens. Illustration: shutterstock

Failed predictions from history - and the reasons for them

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Chesley Bonstel's detailed drawing in Collier's magazine of a futuristic space station. The station is divided into four levels. On the upper level - the control room. Below it is the navigation level (manual as you can see), below it the residential wing and on the lower level - the engineering wing. The painting has inspired millions of readers. James Vaughan/flickr, CC BY-NC

Long before Armstrong and Aldrin, the Apollo 11 astronauts, it was artists who paved the way for a trip to the moon

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Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and Doc Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) arrive in 2015. Screenshot from the movie "Back to the Future 2"

Even without flying cars, the real future is much more interesting than the one predicted in the movie "Back to the Future 2"

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Map of Europe, the Mediterranean and Africa after placing dams in Gibraltar, between Sicily and Tunisia and between the banks of the Dardanelles Strait in Turkey. The parts in olive green are areas that will be drained from the sea due to lowering its level. From the Atlantropia archive at the Deutsche Museum in Munich.

Atlantropa - the crazy plan from 1928 to close the Mediterranean Sea and create a supercontinent

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Isaac Asimov on a throne full of hints about his works. From Wikipedia. GNU license (link to image)

What did Asimov foresee in 1964 that would be established in the Negev in 2014?

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Earth as seen from Gemini-11's high orbit in 1966. This is what the crew's view might have looked like just before the engine started to take them on a triple close pass mission. Credit: NASA

NASA's Manned Voyage to the Inner Planets - Article by Amy Shira Teitel

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Introduction - predicting the next hundred years, from the book "The Physics of the Future" by Michio Kaku

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Plastic zipper and nylon zipper. From Wikipedia

132 years since the birth of Gideon Sandbeck - the zipper key

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To what extent will the movie "Back to the Future" succeed in predicting the technological future in 2015?

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Watson - IBM's smart computer

IBM's supercomputer defeated the "king of trivia" champions

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Technological predictions from the past, and how come they didn't?

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IEEE recognized Weitzek as a milestone in the history of computing. Impressions from the ceremony held at the Weizmann Institute

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A scientist from NASA at the aerospace conference: in 2011 there will be computers with a power similar to that of the human brain

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David Ben Gurion. Photo: Knesset website

"The next war will be fought by pressing buttons" and other topical things said by Ben-Gurion

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Ahead of Independence Day, InformationWeek "interviewed" David Ben-Gurion, founder of the State of Israel, founder of the IDF and Prime Minister and first Minister of Defense * From what Ben-Gurion said and wrote, very topical issues arise, such as electronic warfare,
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Time travelers: 100 years since the death of Jules Verne: the future is here

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A flat screen TV and digital clocks - in the book Madev Shachut from 1882

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The dream that sinks

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Microsoft demonstrates the operation of the future office

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2001: This is how Arthur Clark predicted the Internet

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the countdown

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