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Robot Spiders, Dragonflies, Snakes to Aid Soldiers in War Zones
As if warfare weren’t already creepy enough, BAE Systems, a British defense company, has released a promotional video of robotic spiders, dragonflies and snakes it is developing to aid soldiers in combat zones. The robotic creatures are being funded by a $38 million contract with the U.S. Army that is part of a massive, and [...]
10,000 years from now - from 1922
The February 12, 1922 Ogden Standard-Examiner (Ogden, UT) published this page, speculating on the world in 10,000 years. The article depicts future cities floating high in the air, several miles above the earth and humans propelled through space via “electro-magnetism”. And of course, the “jet pack”.
The piece is a shortened article by Hugo Gernsback with [...]
