Self-healing airplanes, super-charged batteries, cameras that focus *after* you take the picture ...
The future might not be here, but it’s close enough for our friends on the Letter staff to see. They just released their annual list of new technologies that will rock your world.
Brendan Griffen attempts to map the relationships of influence between all of history’s big thinkers, likely inspired by Circles of Influence.
We spot an economic philosopher or two in the bottom left …
FRIDAY FLASHBACK: A very 90s illustration from the February 1991 issue.
The ‘micro-unit’ mini-apartment building is coming to New York City, Dana Rubinstein reports.
How much would you pay to live in an apartment that was between 250 and 350 square feet in size?
350 square feet? That’s huge! Last November, Kip’s Stacy Rapacon profiled some families living in houses as small as 125 (!) square feet. Cost to build: $25,000.
FRIDAY FLASHBACK: New road signs in the April 1972 issue.
FRIDAY FLASHBACK: A cool illustration from the July 1971 magazine.
