Retro-futurist Matt Novak started his blog Paleofuture tracing our past visions of the future in January 2007 in a writing course at the UniversityofWisconsin- Milwaukee.
"We want to capture the changes day-by-day throughout the seasons, " said geographer Mark Schwartz at the Universityof Wisconsin-Milwaukee, who monitors lilacs at a thousand U.S. locations.