Episodes

  • Push-Button World: The Future of the Jetsons

    Push-Button World: The Future of the Jetsons
    Oct 25 2023
    The Jetsons premiered in 1962 and became the codification of what the future family looked like.
    With its comedically played predictions about automation and changing social norms, it gave us a look at what was to come.


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    9 mins
  • Based on a True Story: Lucian's Journey to the Moon

    Based on a True Story: Lucian's Journey to the Moon
    Oct 18 2023
    The satirist Lucian of Samosata once tackled the over-the-top stories of world travels that were so popular during his day.
    And the result?
    A trip to the moon and back - written in the 2nd century AD.

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    12 mins
  • The World of Tomorrow: 1939 New York World's Fair

    The World of Tomorrow: 1939 New York World's Fair
    Oct 11 2023
    80 years ago, the future looked considerably different.
    The 1939 New York World's Fair offered a "futurama," a look at the "world of tomorrow."
    Now, just what did this massive exhibit portray?
    And what would change in the few short years that followed?


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    9 mins
  • Cryptic Forecasts: The Quatrains of Nostradamus

    Cryptic Forecasts: The Quatrains of Nostradamus
    Oct 4 2023
    Nostradamus is perhaps the most famous name involved in the business of predicting the future.
    But his work has been broadly challenged because it is subject to interpretation.
    He densely layers his work to obscure the meaning.
    In today's episode, we work to make sense of what the seer meant when he penned his quatrains.

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    12 mins
  • The Universal Reformation: The Rosicrucian Prophecy of Enlightenment

    The Universal Reformation: The Rosicrucian Prophecy of Enlightenment
    Aug 23 2023
    In the era of the Reformation there arose an organization that, like Lutheranism dawning at the time, was emblazoned with the symbol of a rosy cross.
    Thus, the name "Rosicrucians."
    The secret society had a big vision of the future though - a dream that the whole world was about to wake up...


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    11 mins
  • Building Bigger: Étienne-Louis Boullée's Tributes to the Age of Enlightenment

    Building Bigger: Étienne-Louis Boullée's Tributes to the Age of Enlightenment
    Aug 16 2023
    Étienne-Louis Boullée was a visionary - and his visions belong among the greatest ideas that have never been realized.
    Among his great designs are his Cenotaph dedicated to Isaac Newton.
    His towering structures make us imagine what could have been - in a future that embraced neoclassicism and took it to new heights.


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    10 mins
  • Designing Things to Come: Buckminster Fuller's Life and Legacy

    Designing Things to Come: Buckminster Fuller's Life and Legacy
    Aug 2 2023
    Buckminster Fuller was ahead of his time.
    He was a man with his eye on efficiency and the common good.
    What do we learn from the thinker who gave us "Starship Earth"?
    And which of his ideas can we pick up and run with today.

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    12 mins
  • Prototyping Tomorrow: The Foresight and Shortfalls of Disney's EPCOT

    Prototyping Tomorrow: The Foresight and Shortfalls of Disney's EPCOT
    Jul 26 2023
    Before the visionary's city on a hill could be built, the visionary died.
    Today, we're looking at what Walt Disney saw from afar - what EPCOT was intended to be.
    And what the sprawling metropolis he envisioned became.

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    12 mins