Almost There: Signs from the Near Future May Blow Your Mind
A few are far-fetched, but most of these notices are shocking in part because they are nearly believable - some may be an accepted reality within the next few years (click to ...
Tag: future
Turning Tides: 10-Mile Park to Protect NYC from Flooding
Designed to shield the exposed edges of Lower Manhattan from increasingly-disastrous storms, this impressive system of parks and other public spaces is also designed to serve the everyday needs ...
Future Perfect: 7 Potential Wonders of the World
One hundred years from now, will we be living on other planets, teleporting from place to place, communicating to each other telepathically, or even becoming immortal by shifting human ...
Towers of Trash: 5000-Foot Junk Skyscrapers to Fuel Cities
The Germans have a dark joke about their low-water-consumption, eco-friendly toilets and cultural history, which goes something like this: you have to look at your garbage before you get to flush ...
Tower with a Twist: Very Top-Heavy Vancouver Skyscraper
This is what creative design is all about: taking a familiar typology and turning (or twisting) it around ... not merely to show off something new and unique, but to critically respond and adapt ...
The Retro Future is Here: Houses Beyond the Year 2000
The future is here! Unfortunately, dinner is not in pill form, I have nothing that looks remotely like a hovercar, and robots are still lumbering jokes. Where are the domed cities? The jetpacks? ...
Futuretecture: From Sea Cities to Space Colonies
Are we on the brink of a new era in construction? With commercial space travel finally within our reach, will we see space colonies within our lifetime? And with Earth's resources running low, ...
At World’s End: 13 (More) Artistic Post-Apocalyptic Visions
Our small blue planet - and everything on it - is destined to be fried to a crisp by an expanding sun some 5 billion years hence. Will anyone be around to observe the final sunset, or will society ...
Master Blasters: Science Fiction Guns & Weapons to Die For
Mostly harmless? I think not! Any aliens who receive our old TV and radio transmissions will be raising their tentacles in submission once they get a glimpse of sci-fi's greatest hitmen and their ...
Retrofuture Urbanism: 10 Fantastic Cities of the Future
Urban planners, sociologists and science fiction writers have long dreamed of futuristic utopias at sea, on land or in space. These 10 examples showcase some of the weird, wild, and workable plans ...
