7 Amazing Images Of The Future, From 1947
Dreams of the future, from 1947 Popular Science archives From the Popular Science archive: Weather control, looped cities, moon microwaves, and more! Click here to enter the gallery When Popular Science published these dazzling visions of the future in May 1947, science seemed to be propelling humanity faster and faster into a strange new world: engineers and pilots were making the first flights to graze the edges of space; physicists had already unleashed the horrifying power of the atom bomb; and governments were funding audacious ideas like weather control. In the cover story "Science Never Stops," writer Harland Manchester described science as a "blank check": "The world has made vast strides in the last 75 years; even greater triumphs lie ahead if mankind has the courage to go on with the job," he wrote. While some of the ideas in this article didn't quite come to pass (we haven't yet established a global...