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Corporate America Predicts the Future at the 1962 Seattle World's Fair
Roll-Oh the Household Robot Solves All Domestic Problems in 1940
"If Mail Can Be Shot Through a Tube Why Not Meals?"
In the Year 2000, You'd Hose Down the House and Melt the Dinner Plates
In 1950, Popular Mechanics magazine visited the world of the future, which turned out to be an imaginary suburb called Tottenville, home of a pretend family named the Dobsons. So what was life like for the Dobsons in the year 2000? More »