Past Visions of the Future!

Of course now many of these ideas are everyday things. I'm fascinated by the way the near future was imagined in the middle of the 20th century. The concepts pulled from science fiction and turned into commonplace items never cease to amaze me. My phone, my e-reader and the computer I record my podcasts on - all were first seen in someone's crazed view of what might eventually come to be. We still don't have the giant corn, though. Maybe that's a good thing....