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Asked on Meet the Press about reports that there were numerous Chinese balloon incidents during the Trump administration, Rep. Mike Turner immediately changes the topic back to criticizing Biden
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High Schoolers of 1999 Predicted Many More Shootings by 2020 After Columbine
NASA's 'Spinoff' Magazine Showed How Space Tech Was Building the Future
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Video From 2002: RFID Chips Were Supposed to Turn Everyone Into a Salesperson paleofuture.com/blog/2023/1/30
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The Remote-Controlled Tank of 1945 Was a Prediction for the Future of War
This 1970s Computer Magazine Imagined Robotic Pets of the Future That Smelled and Even Tasted Real
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New article for subscribers: Predictions for the Four-Hour Work Day in 2023 Were Met With Celebration and Ridicule in 1923 paleofuture.com/paleofuture-pl
That Viral Video From 1956 About Avoiding a Future Plague is Totally Fake paleofuture.com/blog/2023/1/24
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This 1920s Designer Imagined Airplane Runways for Tall Buildings and Gigantic Mountains
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New Benefit for Paleofuture+ Members: Exclusive Access to the Complete Collection of 'Closer Than We Think' Strips From 1958-1963
Paleofuture+ has a new benefit for subscribers: The complete collection of Closer Than We Think newspaper comic strips from 1958-1963 paleofuture.com/paleofuture-pl
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Apple TV+'s Upcoming Series 'Hello Tomorrow!' Looks Like 'Mad Men' With Hovercars paleofuture.com/blog/2023/1/21
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How Some Girls Saw the Apollo Space Program in 1971
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This Amazing 1923 Cartoon Accurately Predicted the AI Art of the Year 2023 paleofuture.com/blog/2023/1/18
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New article for subscribers: How Simplified Spelling Was Supposed to Fix America's Crime Problem in the 1970s paleofuture.com/paleofuture-pl
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Forget ChatGPT, the Smart Computer Was Coming For Your Job in 1962
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Sweden's Nuclear Bunkers Were Extremely Fancy During the Cold War paleofuture.com/blog/2023/1/12
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Watch a Cranky Marshall McLuhan Explain the Future of Ads and the Internet in 1966
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The First Radio Ever Installed in a Congressman's Office Was Enormous
Declassified Obituary From Spy Agency Provides Rare Peek at History of America's Eyes in the Sky
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Introducing Paleofuture+, a New Members-only Area with Exclusive Content
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This 1961 Song About Space Travel is Hauntingly Beautiful paleofuture.com/blog/2023/1/6/
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1960s Predictions for Biomedical Engineering Were Right About Everything But the Price
The Fed Predicted in 1977 That a Gallon of Milk Would be $12.50 by Now
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Watch newly unearthed video of the first drone ever shot down with a laser in 1973 paleofuture.com/blog/2023/1/3/
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Here’s what people thought of Twitter when it first launched
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These were the flying hospitals of the future in 1960
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The Paleofuture archive with old posts dating back to 2007 has been redesigned so that it should be easier to search: paleofuture.com
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The futuristic comic that turned the Sunday funnies into a Cold War weapon paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-futuristic
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Did the 'War of the Worlds' radio broadcast really cause mass panic? paleofuture.gizmodo.com/did-the-war-of
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The 1950s "miracle kitchen" of the future had its own Roomba paleofuture.gizmodo.com/the-1950s-mira
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This 1985 RAND paper on the future of email is still relevant today paleofuture.gizmodo.com/this-1985-rand
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11 Things You Probably Never Knew About the Making of Back to the Future io9.com/11-things-you-
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