America a century ago was an exciting place to be. New inventions like motion pictures and airplanes and radio were making the new century more interesting and more entertaining but also a lot creepier, too. New political ideas and new technologies were transforming the way people lived but casting an ominous tinge over their lives. More than any...
Creepy Things That Were Considered Normal 100 Years Ago
America a century ago was an exciting place to be. New inventions like motion pictures and airplanes and radio were making the new century more interesting and more entertaining but also a lot creepier, too. New political ideas and new technologies were transforming the way people lived but casting an ominous tinge over their lives. More than any before it, the 20th century was defined by scientific advancement. Unfortunately, as much as science is a process of...
What's fascinating isn't the accuracy of what people from around 100 years ago thought, but what it says about our collective optimism. Dystopian sci-fi may get all the attention, but when you look at what people were actually predicting for the early 21st century, it's a pretty exciting scene. Here's how people from 100 years ago pictured the future would be...
As science and technology have shot forward like speeding bullets, the job market has evolved in leaps and bounds, resulting in yesterday's lucrative career paths becoming today's unimaginable chores. On one hand, it's scary to think about all the jobs automation will swallow up in 10 years. But on the other, would you really want to do a bunch of dangerous or...
Walk through any modern, 21st-century store and it's a guarantee there's an almost overwhelming number of hygiene products on the shelves. Whether it's meant to keep skin smoother, body odor at bay, or keep hair either thicker and more luxurious or gone altogether, Americans take their hygiene very seriously these days. It wasn't always like that...
It's so much fun to look back through time at all the ignorant humans who used to populate planet Earth, while also pretending that in 50 years, people will not also be stifling a sympathetic chuckle as they look back through time at our ignorant selves. That is, if they still feel like chuckling through the gas masks they have to wear every day because we...