In 1995, astronomer Clifford Stoll published a Newsweek column confidently explaining why the internet would never replace real commerce, real community, or real anything. He was spectacularly wrong. The uncomfortable part? His reasoning was almost coherent.
Mar 12, 2026
For eight consecutive decades, engineers, investors, and magazine editors have solemnly promised that flying cars are just twenty years away. Mathematically speaking, that means they were due in 1945. We're still waiting. Chester Wrongwright investigates humanity's most stubborn, most expensive, and most aeronautically challenged broken promise.
Mar 12, 2026
In 1967, RAND Corporation analyst Herman Kahn mapped out the technological landscape of the year 2000 with uncanny accuracy — lasers fixing your eyeballs, satellites beaming TV into your living room, shopping from a screen in your kitchen. The one thing he got catastrophically, almost insultingly wrong? He thought all that technology would give Americans more time off. Bless his heart.
Mar 12, 2026
Once the undisputed king of social news, Digg managed to fumble its throne so spectacularly that it became a cautionary tale taught in business schools. Here's the full, gloriously messy story of how one website rose to the top of the internet, handed everything to a competitor on a silver platter, and then spent the next decade trying to remember what it was good at.
Mar 12, 2026