Tomorrow's promises are here today!
From retractable carpets to coffee pills, from grocery
rockets towalkie-talkie banking-the future will he fun 'n' fancy-free!
IMAGINE "dive-bombing" the bathroom bowl with tiny atomic torpedoes now being perfected in U.S. Navy labs! Or feature an all-alloy carpet, based on the Air Force's temporary landing strips, that retracts into the wall for jitterbugging or house cleaning! Unbelievable as they are unheard-of, these brain-waves are just some of what's coming to us in the future from the scientific lessons of war as the Arsenal of Democracy converts to Freedom's Corner Hardware!
REMEMBER Guadalcanal? Science does; the result: a tiny brown pill you'll swallow like G.I.s swallowed sulfa drugs, and which contains the Punch of twelve cups of Brazilian java! A robot rocket, patterned after the dreaded Nazi V-2s, will soon zoom into your kitchen loaded with ... the week's groceries, sent by remote control from the local Fooderia. And our night fighters brought vital lessons back from the war-torn skies of Europe; so soon, an overhead rocket will locate your home by infrared light and drop the mail by parachute. If a U.S. suggestion to the United Nations goes through as expected, every American home will have a captured Jap houseboy for doing chores, like tending the upkeep-free aluminum lawn or oiling junior's midget helicopter. You'll want to use the atomic vacuum cleaner yourself. Warning: Put on your "lead pajamas"! Dad's pride and joy will be his jazzy "Jet-Kar," using the technology behind Hitler's death planes, but riding on automatic rails.