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Part 2 of Alexander R. George’s 1938 Brooklyn Daily Eagle feature about life 25 years in the future isn’t quite as daring as Part 1, focusing instead on sensible if very hopeful predictions for a society still dealing with the fallout of the Great Depression and yet to lead the Allies to victory in WWII: longer lifespans, healthier citizens, etc. Perhaps most interesting are the fashion prognostications. Americans did wearer fewer and less-formal clothes by 1963, and women discarded corsets, but those expected glass raincoats that protected against lightning never did come to pass.

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It must have been grand in 1963, what with families living in glass or rubber houses, driving cars 140 miles-per-hour, owning their own airplanes and feasting on “pill dinners.”

None of that actually happened, of course, but those were the futuristic predictions in Part One of two-part article by Alexander R. George in a March 22, 1938 Brooklyn Daily Eagle about what was to come in just 25 years. The idea about newspapers being delivered directly into the home by some sort of wire facsimile is impressive, however, even if it’s a little too bold in timeline.

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