We get a little bit closer to that dystopian future of our dreams everyday. Sometimes an advertisement notices how close we are. An subway billboard in Beijing has done just that. The advertisement is for a sports haze mask and features a female running with a face mask that looks like a souvenir from Fury Road. A sports haze mask is for people attempting to exercise in heavy smog areas, like Beijing. Twitter reacted, as it's wont to do, welcoming the new oncoming dystopia.
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We get a little bit closer to that dystopian future of our dreams everyday. Sometimes an advertisement notices how close we are. An subway billboard in Beijing has done just that. The advertisement is for a sports haze mask and features a female running with a face mask that looks like a souvenir from Fury Road. A sports haze mask is for people attempting to exercise in heavy smog areas, like Beijing. Twitter reacted, as it's wont to do, welcoming the new oncoming dystopia.
Oh, the irony. "The Future Is Private" that's certainly rich. These headlines are so far off from the truth of the future, it's depressing and slightly frightening. But still, you have to laugh at just poorly these posts have aged.
Welcome to the circus of the future! When it comes to the circus, animal abuse has always been a major problem. However, Circus Roncalli, a German circus founded in 1976, is making a change for the better, and they don't even need to rid themselves of the entire circus to do so! Thanks to Bluebox, who successfully installed 11x ZU850 Optoma models and 11x BX-CTA03 lenses, the circus can now offer stunning and action-filled performances involving animals without actually having any. It's a complete win-win situation: visitors get to enjoy the sight of the animals, the circus can live on, and real animals can be left alone! See some of the spectacular images and video of the circus of the future below.
We're getting to the point where advertisers are trying to capitalize on everyone's cynicism and anxiety over our changing world, and it sure feels like a god damn slap in the face. Some of these are certainly intended as jokes, but when you think about what they're trying to say, are they really? For more alarming Dystopian Images Straight out of an Orwellian Nightmare, check these out.
There's nothing quit like the satisfaction of making a prediction and ending up being totally right. Okay, maybe it's not so satisfying if it's about being cheated on or your brother's divorce, but it at least feels a little cathartic to have been right. Here are times people got it right out of the blue. For more stories of amazing intuition, here are some times people's "there's something not right about him/her" predictions came true.
This is pretty insane! Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom, creators of the 'Which Face Is Real' sensation, state their reason for creating such a program, "to make you aware of the wase with which digital identities can be faked, and to help you spot these fakes at a single glance." We snapshotted a new of the faces below, see if you can tell which one is real and which is fake! The real face will be highlighted in green.
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Ol' Musky is back at it again with news of a flying car (or aptly named, Roadster), being a thing by 2022. Elon Musk shocking Twitter with his status quo-shattering capacity for bringing the world the cool sh*t we thought was reserved for the movies, is nothing new. In this case, we need only ask ourselves, what will he do next to leave us speechless?
Back in the late 1800s, a group of French artists imagined what the year 2000 would look like and illustrated all kinds of scientific and everyday inventions they envisioned. These illustrations were called, 'En L'An 2000', and were originally posted onto cigarette/cigar boxes and, later, as postcards. You can view the more of the collection at Wikimedia Commons.
