A window into the future

"Window to the Future" offers an opportunity to see how the world of tomorrow was imagined several decades ago.
Today, it's especially interesting to look into these forecasts: sometimes they seem naive and touching, sometimes they're surprisingly accurate, and sometimes they're striking in the boldness of their engineering imagination. This column is a kind of time machine, allowing us to understand what people of that era dreamed about, what they expected, and how they envisioned the future.