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7 adorably wrong retro visions of the future

With the future looking gloomier than ever, let's take a look at what could have been.

By Amelia Tait
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    Where there was once soul and body, now there’s also a phone.

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    22 February
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    When a medium acquires new functions, it will need to be adapted by means of creating new forms.

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    17 February
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    Silicon Valley has us hooked on digital dope. A “dumb phone” is one way to break that addiction.

    By Ed Smith
    11 February
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    How the gaming prodigy David Braben and his friends invented a tiny £15 device that became the biggest-selling British computer.

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    08 February
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    It is time the definition of "online radicalisation" was broadened to include the indoctrination of lonely, young white men. 

    By Amelia Tait
    31 January
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    More than a one million people have signed a petition calling for President Trump's invitation to the UK to be revoked. Is this another example of "slacktivism"? 

    By Amelia Tait
    30 January
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    From Uber to drones, Amy Webb attempts to forecast how technology will change the world.

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    29 January
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    Take our cyber quiz, on the cyber, which is huge.

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    27 January
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    Thankfully, nobody can see the Freddie Mercury impression I uploaded to YouTube in 2006. Tomorrow's teenagers, however, might not be so lucky.

    By Amelia Tait
    24 January
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    23 January

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