The wonderful future that never was : flying cars, mail delivery by parachute, and other predictions from the past
flying cars, mail delivery by parachute, and other predictions from the past
Inventions, history
Technological forecasting
Prévisions
Twentieth century
Forecasts
Inventions
World history
Forecasting
Long Now Manual for Civilization
SOCIAL SCIENCE
History
Between 1903 and 1969, scientists and other experts made hundreds of predictions in Popular Mechanics magazine about what the future would hold. Their forecasts ranged from ruefully funny to eerily prescient and optimistically utopian. Here are the very best of them, culled from hundreds of articles…
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