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StoneRed

The StoneRed project (SR) is a wide-area curiosity retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to one interesting document per day.

Everything there is online about SR is linked directly or indirectly to this document, including an executive summary of the project, the document archive, today's SR news and other appearances.

Today's document: The one interesting thing for Tuesday, October 6, 2026.
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You came here to read one thing. You left knowing something you didn't know before.THE INTERNET'S MOST UNNECESSARILY INTERESTING DAILY READING MATERIAL

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The Screening Room / Tomorrowland

1999 A.D.

1967 · 26 minutes · Colour

[FILM: 1999 A.D., 1967]

A 1967 family lives in the "1999 House of Tomorrow", where a central computer runs everything: shopping from home, meals cooked automatically, school by screen. Made by an appliance company, so the future looks suspiciously like its catalogue.

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How much they got right — online shopping, remote learning, email — and how much they didn’t.

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COLOUR13 min Destination Earth1956 · John Sutherland Productions

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