This is the Nissan LEAF Start-Up Sounds, which is an electric car and, as such produce almost no noise when starting.

A curious project by Antonin Fourneau

“Hard time on planet Earth” is an American science fiction series that aired on CBS in 1989 and caught my attention at the time because of the weird floating robot that constantly moved around the main character. According to the Wikipedia:

Despite its flawed title, reading My Life as a Telecommuting Robot was intriguing enough. Some excerpts:

Dephone, by Maria Beltran (Master Media Design, HEAD-Genève):

Meanwhile in Switzerland: sheep to warn shepherds of wolf attacks by SMS:

Legacy post from Near Future Laboratory.

The Leaky Future Conjecture:

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