It’s giddy fun to look at vintage ephemera that predicts the future, usually because the predictions turn out to be so charmingly wrong. This 1971 item from Mad Magazine, though, turns out to be alarmingly right…except for the ultra-convenient home delivery! Four decades ago, a “Scene We’d Hate to See.” Today, a Scene We Wait to See. Mad, for sure!
From the awesome Flickr photostream of Christian Montone
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Not too far off for sure. Every once and a while, someone gets it right. My favorite was the bottle of water. Do you think he ever thought of putting it in plastic bottles and selling it door to door?
One anomaly – there’s a newspaper.
Wow, you’re right! Guess that part, sadly, turns out to be a miss.
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