The Usborne Book of the Future 

“A trip in time to the year 2000 and beyond. See the robots, machines and cities of the future, and then travel to the stars.”

First published in 1979 by Usborne Books, and written by Kenneth Gatland and David Jefferis. Very interesting perspectives on how fast they thought the world would change in just 20 years. Time travel, pyramid cities, and crazy human robots are insane but I don’t see that happening in our world for at least 50 years still. The book can be read from The Pointless Museum and they have more books like this if you go to their library.

Museum Kills Live Exhibit - New York Times

By JOHN SCHWARTZ
Published: May 13, 2008

Art is deathless, the poets say. Unless it isn’t.

One of the strangest exhibits at the opening of Design and the Elastic Mind, the very strange show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York that explores the territory where design meets science, was a teeny coat made out of living mouse stem cells. The victimless leather was kept alive in an incubator with nutrients, unsettlingly alive. Until recently, that is.

Paola Antonelli, a senior curator at the museum, had to kill the coat. It was growing too much, she said in an interview from a conference in Belgrade. The cells were multiplying so fast that the incubator was beginning to clog. Also, a sleeve was falling off. So after checking with the coat’s creators, a group known as SymbioticA, at the School of Anatomy & Human Biology at the University of Western Australia in Perth, she had the nutrients to the cells stopped.

In celebration of 2008’s Whitney Biennial exhibition, Gap will release a series of limited edition t-shirts specially designed by artists who have participated the exhibition before. A project masterminded with the Whitney Museum of American Art, feature impressive artworks from 13 artists across the world.