Are We There Yet?
From cities in the sky to robot butlers, futuristic visions fill the history of PopSci. In the Are we there yet? column we check in on progress towards our most ambitious promises.
Latest Are We There Yet? Stories
Why don’t we use more driving simulators to teach teenage drivers?
Why we still don’t have a vaccine for the common cold
Could quantum physics unlock teleportation?
High-speed rail trains are stalled in the US—and that might not change for a while
Is it finally time for a permanent base on the moon?
The centuries-long quest to map the seafloor’s hidden secrets
When will we finally have jetpacks?
The century-old dream of traveling by hovercraft is still alive
Why hasn’t Henry Ford’s ideal power grid become a reality?
Will baseball ever replace umpires with robots?
Radium was once cast as an elixir of youth. Are today’s ideas any better?
What it would take for cars to actually fly
The resurgence of open public streets is a centuries-old idea
Can we make ourselves more empathetic? 100 years of research still has psychologists stumped.
