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DISCOVER WHAT MADE THE FUTURE: CHARLES & RAY EAMES

Together US designers and architects Charles and Ray Eames had a knack for imagining how people would live in the future, and then build it. From their famous... https://t.co/otE9lHosCu

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DISCOVER WHAT MADE THE FUTURE: PENGUIN POOL AT THE LONDON ZOO

London in the 30s was not keen on continental modernism. Modernism was all about foreign ideas, it smacked of socialism, and went against the... https://t.co/BY94abfGn6

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DISCOVER WHAT MADE THE FUTURE: CHANEL NO.5

Traditionally, fragrances worn by women fell into two basic categories: "respectable women" that favoured the essence of a single garden flower and sexually... https://t.co/ckYrnUkzVY

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Posts from Everything 47 for 01/04/2019 - https://t.co/wDmZHlmQL8

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DISCOVER WHAT MADE THE FUTURE: SEIKO 6139-6002

The first automative chronograph watch in space was always thought to be the SINN 140. But in 2007 an eagle-eyed timepiece enthusiast spotted a Seiko 6139-6002 on... https://t.co/PniLIaSHBl

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DISCOVER WHAT MADE THE FUTURE: 1975 PIPELINE GUN

In the early 1970’s a number of South African and Australian surfers headed to Hawaii to compete in the Hawaii Masters. Armed with talent and confidence in... https://t.co/gDjEYrCGzm

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DISCOVER WHAT MADE THE FUTURE : ZAHA HADID

“Rarely has an architect so radically changed and inspired the field,” writes architect and critic Joseph Giovannini in his essay on British-Iraqi architect Zaha... https://t.co/xaMWuhZolG

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DISCOVER WHAT MADE THE FUTURE : DYSAN

James Dyson is a peculiarly British sort of hero – a billionaire who pushed the boundaries of design with one of the most prosaic household objects there is: the vacuum... https://t.co/MnP0qfUEak

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DISCOVER WHAT MADE THE FUTURE : GOOGLE ‘BABEL-FISH’ PIXEL BUDS

In the cult sci-fi novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, you slide a yellow Babel fish into your ear to get translations in... https://t.co/ByMSkXt7Ui

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Posts from Everything 47 for 12/28/2018 - https://t.co/Xw5aoYxoCl

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DISCOVER WHAT MADE THE FUTURE : IAN GOODFELLOW / THE GAN-FATHER

Ian Goodfellow designed the GAN “Generative Adversarial Network” - that effectively allows Artificial intelligence (AI) to teach itself. This... https://t.co/Y0FnMQpKwJ

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DISCOVER WHAT MADE THE FUTURE : DELOREAN DMC-12

The DeLorean DMC-12 (commonly referred to simply as "the DeLorean") is a sports car originally manufactured by John DeLorean's DeLorean Motor Company for the... https://t.co/I0Y3B2r0b1

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DISCOVER WHAT MADE THE FUTURE : KAWS
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Brian Donnelly (born 1974), known professionally as KAWS, is an American graffiti artist and designer known for his toys and paintings. His work includes repeated use of a... https://t.co/GypUOOdUE2

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DISCOVER WHAT MADE THE FUTURE : KAWS
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Brian Donnelly (born 1974), known professionally as KAWS, is an American graffiti artist and designer known for his toys and paintings. His work includes repeated use of a... https://t.co/NH3QSRjKDI

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DISCOVER WHAT MADE THE FUTURE : BANG & OLUFSEN

Bang & Olufsen (B&O) was founded in 1925 by Peter Bang and Svend Olufsen in Denmark.
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B&O has a distinctive design appeal that Wired Magazine described as... https://t.co/bzuivsi9Ou

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Posts from Everything 47 for 12/22/2018 - https://t.co/7EmSzgELrM

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DISCOVER WHAT MADE THE FUTURE : DAMIEN HIRST / The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living
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A tiger shark floating in a tank of formaldehyde: Damien Hirst’s 1991 sculpture set... https://t.co/x34mgonlDg

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DISCOVER WHAT MADE THE FUTURE : MOTOROLA DYNATAC 800x

On October 13, 1983, David Meilahn placed the first commercial mobile call on a Motorola DynaTAC from his 1983 Mercedes-Benz 380SL to Bob Barnett, who then... https://t.co/alWThRJrRH

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DISCOVER WHAT MADE THE FUTURE : SONY WALKMAN

On July 1, 1979, Sony Corp. introduced the Sony Walkman - the first true portable music player. The 400g portable cassette player had chunky buttons, a second... https://t.co/YbZsvsHfD7

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DISCOVER WHAT MADE THE FUTURE: LIGHT PHONE 2

As phones get increasingly larger, filled with a growing abundance of unwanted features, we find the new Light Phone 2 (now in prototype stage) both inspiring and... https://t.co/S8LPRSB6Na