Yesterday's Tomorrows: Past Visions of the American Future

作者: Katherine Chambers , Brian Horrigan , Joseph J. Corn

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摘要: Enormous skyscrapers will house residents and workers who happily go "for weeks" without setting foot on the ground. Streamlined, "hurricane-proof" houses pivot their foundations like weather vanes. The family car turn into an airplane so easily that "a woman can do it in five minutes." Our wars be fought by robots. And our living room furniture-waterproof, of course-will clean up with a squirt from garden hose. In Yesterday's Tomorrows Joseph J. Corn Brian Horrigan explore future as Americans earlier last century expected to happen. Filled vivid color images lively text, book is eloquent testimony confidence-and, at times, naive faith-Americans have had science technology. emerges here, authors conclude, one which technology changes, but society politics usually not. draw wide variety sources-popular-science magazines, fiction, world fair exhibits, films, advertisements, plans for things only dreamed of. From Jules Verne Jetsons, 500-passenger flying wing anti-aircraft buzz-saw, vision seen through eyes past demonstrates play American imagination canvas future.

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