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In the space tourism era, with CEOs spending millions to be hoisted into the heavens, he was the first true empty suit in space.

Thousands of cars shooting around in an endless loop: just because it looks like dystopia doesn't mean it's not delightful.

German robotics company Festo offers a postfuturist menagerie: autonomous kites, silver air-jellyfish and flying robo-penguins.

It's morning in America, and the pencil sharpener is at work.

At the blog Paleo-future, visions of techno-optimism & brave new worlds�all in a packet of cigarettes.

The history of the attention span is very distracting.

Some of the earliest examples of scientific imagery have proven the most durable.

Allan Grant's evocative photos document Destination Moon, the trendsetting 1950 film about space travel.

Ian Bogost's retrofuturist art game A Slow Year explores the traditions and aesthetic possibilities of the medium.

NASA's latest nanosatellites seek answers to questions about the place of life in the universe�at a very small scale.