FUTURE MAN


Accelerating Times

Vogue, 1939:

"Man of the next century will revolt against shaving and wear a beautiful beard ... his hat will be an antenna ... his socks, disposable. His suit minus tie, collar, buttons. His vest is Rohm-Haas Plexiglas."

And a fine, fine suit it is.

When I first saw the pic, I was expecting a story about cyber-Jesus or something. In a way, maybe it was...

This snippet and some other very cool stuff comes to us from the e-newsletter of the Acceleration Studies Foundation -- the monthly email used to be called "Tech Tidbits" (Ughh.) Anyway, they are interested in chasing down singularity and are often a good place to find news in biotech, nano and neuro developments, academic and DARPA-stuff and overall technological impact discussions.

Plus, they have a mighty fine fashion eye.