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Tue. 01/04 - Time Capsules in a Confederate Statue & the History of the Future

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Tech News, News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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The history and future of predicting the future. Plus, a new “open-source” COVID vaccine that could help way more people around the world get vaccinated. And, after taking down a statue of Robert E. Lee in Virginia, local experts found two time capsules inside its base. Sponsors: Shopify, Get a 14-day free trial at shopify.com/kottke ExpressVPN, ExpressVPN.com/kottke for an extra 3 months FREE on a one-year package Links: The History of Predicting the Future (Wired) This Reddit Thread Predicting The Things People Are Sure Will Happen In 2022 Will Get You In The Right Headspace For The Rest Of The Year (Digg) New patent-free COVID vaccine developed as “gift to the world” (New Atlas) India's Corbevax vaccine was developed at Texas Children's Hospital. It expects nothing in return. (Washington Post) Editorial: Houston-made Corbevax vaccine welcome news in pandemic fight (Houston Chronicle) Two Time Capsules Found at Removed Confederate Statue Base (The Mary Sue) Experts find books, a coin and an envelope in Robert E. Lee statue's base (NPR) 2nd time capsule found at the Robert E. Lee statue site in Richmond (NPR) Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Music lines and stores subject to availability ends 14th of february welcome to the cocky ride home for tuesday january fourth 2022 i'm jackson bird today the history and future of predicting the future

0:36.1

plus a new open source COVID vaccine that could help

0:40.4

way more people around the world get vaccinated. And after taking down a statue of Robert

0:46.5

E. Lee in Virginia, local experts found two time capsules inside its base. Here are some of the cool

0:54.0

things from the news today.

0:58.6

With the turn of a new year comes a lot of speculation about the months to come.

1:04.4

In addition to clickbait headlines and think pieces, I also saw a pretty decent Reddit

1:09.1

thread asking people to share things that they are

1:12.0

pretty sure will happen in 2022. Guesses ranged from the personal, like losing weight and going

1:18.3

into remission from cancer, to the general and pretty safe, Netflix canceling a series too soon

1:24.2

and Disney rebooting another classic to underwhelming response, to the more

1:29.5

out there, like an alien invasion and George R.R. Martin writing a whole three pages of the winds

1:35.4

of winter. Dabbling with predictions of the future as anything more serious than a casual

1:40.8

thought experiment, however, is a dangerous game. As science historian Amanda

1:46.0

Reese pointed out in a recent article for Wired, when someone, particularly world leaders,

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