
Predicting the future is treacherous work. Food in pill form, flying cars and jetpacks: none has taken off. The past is littered with bad guesses about what is now the present.
They're collected at the excellent blog Paleo-Future.

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Facebook Doesn't Need Your Money; Invest in Africa Instead
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A Geodesic Dome Promises Fish from the Sky
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Debunking 'Green Living': Combatting Climate Change Requires Lifestyle Changes, Not Organic Products
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TED's Taboo: What's Too Controversial for the Hipster Confab?
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Pet Diaries: The Joint-Custody Dog Who Taught Me to Move On
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Humor Is an Online Activist’s Best Defense
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GOOD Pictures: Go Outside
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From Tweet to Street: Anti-Poverty Campaign Takes Supporters' Messages to Camp David
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Pet Diaries: The Joint-Custody Dog Who Taught Me to Move On
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GOOD Maker Challenge: How Would You Use Storytelling to Improve your Community?
today's top stories from our friends at pitchfork
The dismal state of futurism, and how we can make better predictions. Part eight in a GOOD miniseries on the singularity by Michael Anissimov...
If you'd like to contribute in some way to stopping climate change, and have a computer, here's a way to do it: join a group of networked...
As established print news outlets try to create an online presence that amounts to more than "The same old newspaper… now on your screen!"...
The Ashland Media Exchange and the Espresso Book Machine seek to put books back in people's hands.
Valerie Casey's Designers Accord is a Kyoto Treaty for the design industry-but everyone is signing on to this one.
Our current system of government rests on faulty assumptions about how people think and vote. To deal with the world's most challenging...
Thanks in part to the Obama administration, charter schools have more support than ever. But as the movement expands, the controversy...
As election day is rapidly approaching, political advertisements are heating up. We told you about the dueling stem cells ads, and there is this...
Some things may still work best the old fashioned way, but the lighting system around your office is not one of them. In offices all over the...
Breakthroughs in the world of wood toys are, we assume, few and far between. But they happen. There's always room for creative exploration, no...
Rob Kalin, founder of Etsy, on the future of buying and selling. There is a new level of transparency that is expected of companies, and...
Almost two years ago, one of GOOD's contributors made a modest proposal: allow voluntary fare increases to New Yorker's metrocards, and use that...
What if the techy transportation of sci-fi movies isn't as far-fetched as it seems? We asked Seth Shostak, scientist and film consultant, to rate...
We have built ourselves into a mess. An over-abundance of demand for personal mobility is rapidly draining our supply of fossil fuels. How did...
The New York City Transit Museum is currently featuring a great exhibit called The Future Beneath Us, showing some of the massive infrastructure...
Massive corporate conglomerate General Electric has some bold predictions for 2015; namely, that if consumers invest in the new line of appliances...
Your typical brick is fired up in coal-fueled kilns that use up plenty of trees and coal. That one brick ends up emitting 1.3 pounds of carbon...
Yes, it's a Nike ad. Yes, it has a corporate agenda. But that doesn't make it any less compelling an example of the sheer magnitude of the FIFA...

Bus rapid transit systems and "complete streets" are great. But to design urban transportation systems that are truly sustainable, we have to...
In the future, we will have curvy escalators.