Piracy is alive and well in the modern world. This is the African branch, the South China Sea is full of pirates as well. It is becoming quite a major problem.
Retro-Futurismus, a site dedicated to the futures of Europe's past. Only this page is in English but most of it is easy enough to follow as art is the primary medium. I found this site from this
set of images commissioned for US Steel Internation back in the 1960 and made by
Syd Mead, the conceptual artist who define the look of Blade Runner.