The Future of Things

The Future of Things

The Future of Things (TFOT) is an online magazine covering diverse topics related to science and technology. The magazine was launched in 2006.

History

TFOT was founded by Iddo Genuth and co-founder Barak Raz in early 2006 and its beta version was first launched on the 27 of September 2006. During the beta the site included two sections – Picture of the Day (PODs) and Articles. In mid 2007 TFOT launched its full version with several new sections and a new design.

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As of September 2008 TFOT had several sections including: headlines, news, PODs, personal columns, book reviews and forums. TFOT also includes full articles which typically contain a Q&A section which, according to TFOT, is a more accurate way of doing an interview.

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On August 22, 2007 TFOT was the first to extensively cover the Israeli Company Mempile TeraDisc 1TB optical storage technology. The article was later picked up by numerous websites including Engadget [http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/23/mempiles-teradisc-fits-1tb-on-a-single-optical-disc/] , tgdaily [http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/33582/135/] and arstechnica [http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070829-new-dvd-sized-disc-to-hold-terabytes-of-data.html] .

Criticism

Since its launch in early 2008 TFOT’s headlines section was criticized several times for being too short (approx 500 characters) however this is probably the result of copyright issues. A different criticism was raised regarding the relatively short term look at the future of science and technology on TFOT as the site typically deals with research and technology for the next 5-10 years or so.

imilar websites/magazines

*Physorg
*Technology Review
*Scientific American

External Links

* [http://thefutureofthings.com/ The Future of Things website]


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