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Written in 1911, it anticipated numerous innovations such as solar power, plastics, video phones, and a gravity-nullifying vacation city, demonstrating Hugo Gernsback's prescient vision.
But back in, I think, the 1910s?
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Episode: Selects: How Futurology Works
Written in 1911, it anticipated numerous innovations such as solar power, plastics, video phones, and a gravity-nullifying vacation city, demonstrating Hugo Gernsback's prescient vision.
But back in, I think, the 1910s?
Yeah, 1911.
He predicted everything in this.
He predicted solar power, like the realistic use of solar power. He predicted plastics, video phones, and so on.
Video phones, tape recorders, jukeboxes, loudspeakers. Tin foil, rust-proof steel, synthetic fabrics, all in one book.