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Pollster George Gallup Jr. Looks to the Year 2000
Forecast 2000 George Gallup Jr., the son of Gallup Poll founder George Gallup died of liver cancer last week at the age of 81. Gallup Jr. wrote a book with William Proctor in 1984 titled Forecast 2000...
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Mobsters Tremble Before the Crime-Fighting, Red Flying Gondola
Everyday Science and Mechanics (February, 1936) The first known case of aircraft being used in police work was in 1919, when famed Canadian aviator Wilfrid Reid May flew a detective in pursuit of a...
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Surgery, Security and Sales: The Future of Closed-Circuit Television
A closed-circuit television camera looks after an art museum (January 1951 Radio-Electronics) It’s hard to imagine a world before the ubiquitous security camera. In major cities around the world, it’s...
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A New Great Depression and Ladies on the Moon: 1970s Middle School Kids Look...
People in a space colony of the future (by Rick Guidice, 1977) The February 26, 1977 edition of the Herald-Star in Steubenville, Ohio published dozens of predictions for the year 2000 made by the...
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Reckless Breeding of the Unfit: Earnest Hooton, Eugenics and the Human Body...
Illustration of the human bodies of the future by Abner Dean in the January 1950 issue of Redbook magazine In the early 1950s, many people speculated that the average American’s body would look...
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