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futurism

Do Women Predict the Future Differently Than Men Do?

Men and women have such different perspectives that many pop psychologists say they must think about the future differently too. But if that's what you believe, new evidence from brain scans done on men and women will shake your faith. Last year, Harvard cognitive scientists Donna Addis and Daniel Schacter asked men and women to do a series of mental exercises while in an fMRI brain scanner. First they had to remember a recent event, and then they had to imagine a future event in great detail. The results of these "mental time travel" experiments were surprising. More »

4:20 PM on Tue Feb 19 2008
By Annalee Newitz
5,006 views, 26 comments

Latest by n/a: Picardia said, "...fail?" Sorry, don't know what you mean. more »

retro futurism

Mom Goes Shopping Online, Dad Pays the Bills in "1999 A.D."

A young Wink Martindale starred in this Philco-Ford-produced educational film from 1967 that correctly predicts online shopping, banking, and email, but not the women's movement. 1999 A.D. was so eerily prescient in its vision of future technology that when clips started making their way round the internet last fall, there were questions about its authenticity. You can read more about the controversy, and see more clips here.

12:40 PM on Mon Feb 11 2008
By Lynn Peril
1,239 views, 12 comments

stepford wives

The Master Of Robot Slave Women Is Dead

The father of fembot slaves is dead. Ira Levin's novel The Stepford Wives touched on the gender anxieties of a generation — the men who felt their wives were reneging on their traditional domestic role, and the women who feared their husbands wanted them to be machines. But the most shocking thing about The Stepford Wives, even to today's readers? More »

9:38 AM on Wed Nov 14 2007
By charliejane
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