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Plastic Skyscrapers and Frozen Dinners (1945)

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I don’t want to miss plastic skyscrapers; frozen-food dinners in one package… wireless transmission of electricity; the chance to live energetically to the grand old age of 150 years. Screwball? Nothing of the kind. All of these things are here already in the minds of men; in scientific possibility; in materials. They just have to be put together. — Eddie Rickenbacker, 1945

From the book Future: A Recent History by Lawrence R. Samuel.

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