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What happens when scientists and futurists predict the year 2000… in the 1960s? In Popular Science, Walter Cronkite chronicled the state of science and technology in...
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When Everett Knowles hitched a ride on a Boston train, he expected to make it home in a few minutes. But the result was the final...
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The Space Race, the Cold War, and the Moon Landing all have an origin story connected to a small, obscure silver iron mining operation in the...
The $15,000 A.I. from 1983: Scraping, grinding, or drilling a hole through the thick, hard skull that evolution developed to protect our most sensitive contents might...
Why Do We Put Holes In Our Head? Before responsive, voice-controlled assistants like Alexa and Siri, we had the “Butler in a Box” — which its...
The $15,000 A.I. From 1983: Why Do We Put Holes In Our Head?: Edward Youmans founded The Popular Science Monthly in 1872, and the first issue...
