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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