Nothing here was written as history. A company warning its investors what could go wrong; Twain in 1898 putting a condemned man in front of a video call; a sixteenth-century painter arguing that alchemy is a philosophy; Warhol and Rockwell sent to draw rockets that had not launched yet. The ginkgo leaf between two pages is the same idea, pressed flat.
Douglas Adams' 1990 BBC film imagining the web, with Tom Baker as your software agent
→ archive.org
Jay Forrester's 'Limits to Growth' simulation said civilization ends around 2040
→ openculture.com
Forty-odd internal memos and out-of-print business books, free to read or borrow
→ readrare.com
A 1927 New York Times science writer called robots impossible, and Chesterton doubted a robot schoolmaster
→ quoteinvestigator.com
Restored amateur footage from months before the Wall's collapse
→ openculture.com
What they said before going public, checked against what happened
→ s-1.space
An 1898 short story in which a condemned man is saved by a video call
→ openculture.com
Twenty-two gilded plates arguing that alchemy is a philosophy
→ commons.wikimedia.org
Warhol, Rockwell and Leibovitz on the government payroll
→ openculture.com
Deep time, opened from one leaf kept between two pages
→ themarginalian.org