The wonderful future that never was : [flying cars mail delivery by parachute and other predictions from the past] Reveals predictions made in Popular Mechanics magazine between 1903 and 1969 about what the future would hold! Surrounded by wonders and a fast evolving culture of innovation its just as chalenging today for us to imagine the next century as it must have been for our early 20th century colleagues to envision the fabled year 2000. P. 6