This Week in the Future, August 9-13, 2010
Powered by butter and screwed into the sandy ground — is this what Max Headroom foretold two decades ago? Welcome...

Powered by butter and screwed into the sandy ground — is this what Max Headroom foretold two decades ago?
Welcome to the future.
This week in the future on PopSci:
- Prototype Coffin Screws Into the Ground to Save Space
- Tomb-Bot Will Be the First to Enter Final Secret Chambers of the Great Pyramid
- To Test New Tech, Researchers Churn an 800-Pound Butter Sculpture into Biodiesel
- God’s Number Revealed: 20 Moves Proven Enough to Solve Any Rubik’s Cube Position
- How Max Headroom Predicted My Job, 20 Years Before It Existed
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