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Change your perception of the past and you'll discover the secret history of the future. From the world's first cyber attack in 1834, to 19th century virtual reality, The Economist's Tom Sta...
Radio was originally a social medium, as early radio sets (each of which could transmit as well as receive) turned cities into giant chatroo...
The first mechanical clocks were made to summon monks to prayer. Ever since, timekeeping technology has often been about control and obligat...
At the dawn of the 20th century, chemists dreamed of extracting nitrogen from the air and turning it into a limitless supply of fertiliser....
The first ever computer program was written in 1843 by Ada Lovelace, a mathematician who hoped her far-sighted treatise on mechanical comput...
In the 19th century, young people wooed each other over the telegraph. But meeting strangers on the wires could lead to confusion, disappoin...
Polar exploration was the Victorian equivalent of the space race. Major powers vied to outdo each other, funding expeditions to the most inh...
The potato seemed strange and unappetizing when it first arrived in Europe. But it grew into a wonder food that helped solve the continent’s...
In the early 20th century a new forensic technique—fingerprinting—displaced a cruder form of identification based on body measurements. Hail...
For thousands of years we sailed our cargo across oceans using zero-emission, 100 percent renewable wind. Then we switched to ships that run...
The 19th century invention of the phonograph left composers worried they might not be paid for recordings. The 20th century proliferation of...
What can 19th century polar exploration teach us as humans plan missions to Mars? Do modern online dating apps have anything to learn from r...
The Renaissance scholars couldn’t keep up with new information (“Have you read the latest Erasmus book?” “I don’t have time!”) and needed a...
Some people thought the laying of the transatlantic cable might bring world peace, because connecting humans could only lead to better under...
In the Victorian era, plaster casts became a way to preserve important artifacts in 3-D. Now, virtual reality promises to preserve places an...
In 1714, British parliament offered a huge cash prize to anyone who could find a way to determine longitude at sea. And it worked, sort of ....
In 1969, an anthropologist introduced photographs and films to people in Papua New Guinea who’d never seen themselves represented in media b...
The French telegraph system was hacked in 1834 by a pair of thieves who stole financial market information -- effectively conducting the wor...
The first pedestrian killed by a car in the western hemisphere was on New York’s Upper West Side in 1899. One newspaper warned that “the aut...
It took a long time for the fork to go from weird curiosity to ubiquitous tool. How long will it take for current technologies -- like the J...
We’ve used electricity to treat our brains for thousands of years, from placing electric fish on our heads to cure migraines to using electr...
In the 18th century, a device called the Mechanical Turk convinced Europeans that a robot could play winning chess. But there was a trick. I...
Examine the history of tech to uncover stories that help us illuminate the present and predict the future. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr...