I recently discovered another interesting blog:
Paleo-Future: A look into the future that never was. As its subtitle implies, it features examples of unfulfilled predictions from the past about the future. The first posting I read was about a series of collector cards included in Max cigarette packages called "
The Age of Power and Wonder."
This series from 1935-38 includes predictions of robot servants, spaceships, live television from exotic locations, and ubiquitous airports atop city high rises. Somewhat ironically for a cigarette manufacturer, card number six in this series of 250 predicted great advances in the treatment of cancer.
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