I found this link while nosing around for Science Saturday, and decided I wanted to do a post on it by itself. Popular Mechanics and Gregory Benford are releasing a coffee-table book titled The Wonderful Future That Never Was, filled with these great illustrations from the magazine of predictions made by scientists between the years 1903 and 1969. IO9 has ten of the images, and they’re just wonderful. Go check them out.
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Brian Spears
Brian Spears is Senior Poetry Editor of The Rumpus and the author of A Witness in Exile (Louisiana Literature Press, 2011). His poem “Upon Reading That Andromeda Will One Day Devour Triangulum and Come For Us Next” was featured in Season 9 of Motion Poems.