if you don't know where you're going turn around and see where you came from
  2008 Obama < 1955 Rosa Parks
  2007 iPhone
  2004 Facebook < 1991 AOL
  2001 iPOD < '79 Walkman
  2000 ASIMO < '99 AIBO < 1206 Humanoid Automaton
  1999 RSS < '01 radio
  1998 VIAGRA < '60 The Pill
  1997 Prius < 1885 Motorwagen < 1672 steam powered car
  1997 Bilbao's landmark < '60s Archigram
  1996 Google < '89 AOL
  1993 Newton > '96 Palm Pilot > '99 BlackBerry
  1991 Terminator 2 > '94 GM foods < 1818 Frankenstein
  1989 Berlin Wall falls < 220BC Great Wall of China
  1988 Sim City > 2000 The Sims > 2003 Second Life
  1986 Burning Man
  1984 Macintosh < '76 Apple Computer
  1984 "1984" commercial < '82 Blade Runner < '24 IBM
  1983 Swatch > '98 Smart
  1982 Grapus < '60s Polish Posters > '97 Adbusters magazine
  1982 Tron > '89 Virtual Reality < '85 Neuromancer
  1980 IBM rebus < '56 IBM logo < 3,300BC hieroglyphics
  1980 Vietnam Veterans Memorial <50,000BC burial mounds
  1979 Pumping Iron < 1504 David's Hand
  1976 The Sex Pistols < '57 Situationism
  1976 Centre Pompidou < 1860s oil refinery
  1976 I Love NY < '69 Smiley > '82 :-)
  1973 Cell Phone < 1876 Telephone > '46 Dick Tracy
  1972 Pong > '80s ASCII art
  1970 Kraftwerk > '88 Techno in Detroit
  1970 Spiral Jetty < '68 First wrapped building
  1969 Sacco Chair > '95 Blobitecture
  1969 Concorde < '52 Ferrari
  1968 2001: A Space Odyssey < '61 Solaris > '96 Deep Blue vs. Kasparov
  1968 Woodstock > '81 MTV > '89 Berlin Love Parade
  1967 Deconstruction

 

There is nothing outside of the text. Jacques Derrida

  1967 Sgt. Peppers… > '85 Michael Jackson buys their songs
  1962 The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man

 

Gutenberg made everybody a reader. Xerox makes everybody a publisher. Marshall McLuhan

  1960 A bout de souffle + The Pill is approved by FDA
  1960 Brasilia > '96 Celebration, Florida
  1960s VW ads < '30 Hitler > ' 67 Summer of Love
  1960s Mutual Assured Destruction doctrine > '64 Dr. Strangelove
  1960s Mediated resistance < '27 TV > '80 CNN > '86 ActUp
  1960s Avant-garde
  1954 Godzilla < '45 Atomic bomb > '90 Jurassic Park
  1954 solar panels < 1000BC wind power
  1954 Species: The Appearance of Man > '89 The web

 

Humanity has just entered what is probably the greatest transformation it has ever known… something is happening in the structure of human consciousness. It is another species of life that is just beginning. T. de Chardin

  1954 Univers
  1953 First LSD trip < '12 Ecstasy > '88 Prozac
  1952 MAD magazine
  1950 Compiler > '54 Fortran > '95 Java
I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs. Maurice Wilkes
  1950 Modulor < 1503 Proportions of Man > '61 Ken
  1949 Lego < 3000BC Mosaics > 2004 Newsmap
  1949 Heavy Duty Detergent < 2800BC Soap
  1938 Nylon Stockings > '65 Mini skirt < '60s Minimalism
  1936 Autobahn > '50s Sprawl > '98 DSL
  1934 Airstream > '83 Tandy Laptop
  1931 London Underground map < 1863 London Underground
  1931 Las Vegas < 1792 Wall Street
  1929 Man with a Movie Camera < '17 Revolution
  1928 Mickey Mouse > '33 Superman > '59 Barbie
  1928 Sliced bread > '53 TV dinners < '50 Remote control
  1927 Futura < '19 Bauhaus > '57 Helvetica
 

1926 Metropolis < 1880s Tesla coil > '91 Digital Bogart

  1919 Bauhaus > '40s Eames > '43 IKEA
  1917 ReadyMade Art
  1913 The Rite of Spring
Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it. Igor Stravinsky
  1897 Swiss Army Knife > 1984 PDA
  1897 Aspirin > 1988 Prozac
  1896 Psychoanalysis > 1924 Surrealism > 1957 Subliminal Advertising
  1896 Akzidenz Grotesk > 1957 Helvetica
  1895 Movie projection > 2002 Russian Ark
  1894 Michelin > 1971 Nike + FedEx
  1890s Moulin Rouge > 1960s Fillmore
  1889 Eiffel Tower > 1925 LED > 1952 Elevator
  1888 Consumer Camera > 1947 Polaroid > 2004 Flikr
  1883 Sagrada Familia > 1890 Art Nouveau > 1921 Watts Towers
  1879 Electric light bulb < 1650 Electricity > 1904 Timesquare
  1870s Impressionism < 1837 Daguerreotype
  1862 Dollar bill < 700BC Money > 1951 Credit Card
  1793 Metric system > 1874 ".99" pricing > '99 Euro
  1790 Bodoni
  1750 Louis XV > 1980s Philippe Starck > 2000 Design in Target
  1600s Chopines > 1935 Converse All Stars
  1530 Garamond
  1516 Utopia > 1848 Communism > 1970 Arcosanti
  1500 Palmanova > 1811 Manhattan street grid
  1483 Sistine Chapel < 1413 Perspective
  1453 Printing Press > 1971 Project Gutenberg
  1434 The Arnolfini Marriage < 1100s Oil paint
  1335 Mechanical Clock > 1795 Punch clock > 1947 Prime time TV
  1286 Eyeglasses > 1944 night vision > 1950s Contact lenses
  1230 Great Cathedrals > 1998 Petronias towers > 2008 Burj Dubai
  1077 Bayeux Tapestry > 1990 Desert Storm on CNN
  1048 Moveable type > 1985 Adobe Postscript
  976 Arabic numerals in Europe > 1870 Stock ticker
  800s Fireworks < 800s Gunpowder > 1862 Landmines
  200 Christian Cross
  0 Yin Yang
  386BC University > 1980 e-learning
The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion. Plato
  450BC Parthenon > 1995 Parthenon, Nashville
  2,630BC Great Pyramids > 1993 Luxor Hotel Casino, Las Vegas
  2,800BC 12-month/365-day calendar > 2012
  3,000BC Abacus > 1642 Adding Machine > 1967 Pocket Calculator
  4,000BC Wheel > 1946 Vespa
  4,000BC Papyrus > 100 Paper > 1924 Kleenex
  5,000BC Irrigation > 1,700BC Sewers > 2009 Three Gorges Dam
  6,200BC Maps > 1972 GPS > 1994 Earth Viewer
  7000BC Sundial > 1335 Mechanical clock > 1800 Punch card
  35,000BC Cave paintings > 1970s Tagging < 1920s Billboards
  45,000BC Petroglyphs > 1300s Giotto > 1996 Crop circles
  500,000BC First human artifacts
 
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