The most futuristic aspect of the House of the Future was that it was made almost entirely of plastic.

Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war.

Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire.

Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.

Banning paper and plastic and making shoppers carry their groceries home in their mouths like dogs is just the thing to make a little tin humanist in the Obama West Wing think he's admiral of the Uzbek Navy.

Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it.