In 1974, Saturday Review asked some of the world’s leading thinkers (Isaac Asimov, Jacques Cousteau, Andrei Sakharov, etc.) what the world of 2024 would look like. Here’s what they got right (internet) and wrong (factories on the Moon).
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It remains more than a little surprising that the urgency to win the Cold War and put a man on the moon made so many willing to turn a blind eye to Wernher von Braun's seemingly obvious ties to the Nazi party.
His sins were papered over so thoroughly that he even appeared in Disney programming.
Project Paperclip! Not this country's finest hour, and definitely a testament to "ends justify the means" thinking.
The Internet Archive has a scan of this issue of Saturday Review. (via @pronoiac)
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