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1922 aerial captain predicts floating cities by the year 12,000
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Over at Paleo-Future, they have a scan of an article from the Februrary 12, 1922 issue of the Ogden Standard Examiner. Twitchy about predicting a more near-by future that might be flung back in his dotage, the author decided to predict the world of 11922 A.D.... a world in which sunken-chested bald men in jet packs zoom through the stratosphere to visit domed basilicas kept aloft on radioactive propulsor jets. Why would humanity make its cities so catastrophically disaster prone? A Captain Lawson ("of aerial fame") suggests that the inexorable impetus of human evolution will command us to build our cities at the top of the atmosphere, just as it commanded us to crawl upwards from the ooze of the deep sea floor and conquer land.
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