In the pre-Internet days, transmission of information fall solely to newspaper , telegraph, radio and early television. It takes time b...

The cult classic 80's hit movie "Back to the Future" has produced a lot of future technological wonders that have captiv...

Today the street corner newsboy may be relegated to cartoon cliches about young newsies screaming "EXTRA! EXTRA!" all around ...

At the turn of the 20th century, newspapers were incredibly local. There was no such thing as a nationally focused newspaper like USA T...

As we've seen in our examination of the mid-century animated TV show "The Jetsons," the pneumatic tube was thought to be ...

In the 1982 neo-noir film Blade Runner directed by Ridley Scott, we see the protagonist Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) reading a newspape...

In the third episode of "The Jetsons" George sits down to read the newspaper on his Televiewer device. As we've seen with...

The April 3, 1988 issue of the Los Angeles Times Magazine was dedicated to what Los Angeles might look like in the year 2013. Their pre...

The newspaper in the 2002 film Minority Report seems to have the size and flexibility of a printed newspaper but with the technological...

In the 1930s and '40s a surprisingly large number of newspapers and broadcasters (sometimes owned by the same company) were experim...

In Back to the Future II's futuristic world of 2015 they have hoverboards, flying cars and instant-dry jackets. But the newspaper...

We recently looked at an episode of the CBS show "The 21st Century," hosted by Walter Cronkite titled, "At Home, 2001....

The newspaper tablet of the future was demonstrated in a 1994 concept video released by Knight Ridder. I found the video over at the Op...