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The Museum of the Future
In an 1948 issue of the Atlantic, Walter Lippmann proposes options for balancing openness in museums and the imperative of preservation
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In an 1948 issue of the Atlantic, Walter Lippmann proposes options for balancing openness in museums and the imperative of preservation
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In an 1875 issue, Edward Morse argued for the indispensability of museums in fostering growth of scientific knowledge
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In a 1955 issue of The Atlantic, Raymond Loewy pondered the future of automobile design and automation in America
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December 17th commemorates the first powered human flight by Orville and Wilbur Wright at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1903
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Arthur D. Little introduces you to the latest in 1924 moving picture technology, the pallophotophone!
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"I really see no reason why the newspaper of the future should not come to the subscriber in the shape of a phonogram."
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Jessica Cohen's 2002 first-person account of the emerging human egg market is insightful and disturbing
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We conclude our four-part reading of Oliver Wendell Holmes' stunning exposition of photography's creation
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Oliver Wendell Holmes loved the early 3D technology of the stereoscope
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Oliver Wendell Holmes is not known as a science writer, but he proved he could do it in his 1859 feature
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In a fascinating 1959 feature, Oliver Wendell Holmes transforms photography into a metaphor for ... well, everything
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Ron Rosenbaum's 2007 feature dissected a group of ingenious anti-scammers' exploits
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In a 1963 essay, two NASA scientists try to scare off Apollo's detractors with the American flag
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On the cusp of the TV age, writer Gilbert Seldes wondered how we'd make the medium, and how it would make us
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It is August 1959. Richard Nixon just had a kitchen debate with Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow. Elizabeth Taylor has just taken her fourth husband.…
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Before the personal computer came along in the 1980s, many in the public saw The Computer as a rare object, a big piece of machinery used by the…
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Aeronautical engineer Igor Sikorsky predicted a helicopter-powered ecotopia in The Atlantic's September 1942 issue
Geneticist James Watson's 1971 piece put forward the real possibility of human cloning and called for social control of the practice
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Mark Twain's 1880 gem shows that our annoyance with one-sided communication started long before cell phones
Nicholas Carr's 2008 piece on how using the Internet was reshaping our thinking distilled one of the key debates of our time
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