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.