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Before the internet, before YouTube explainers, before TikTok scientists telling you how many planets could fit inside the sun - there was Popular Science. And in the 1920s and '30s, it wasn't just a magazine… it was a ticket to the future.
Every month, you could pick up a fresh copy and see the world not as it was, but as it could be. The covers were wild, colorful dreams of tomorrow: flying cars casually parked outside Art Deco skyscrapers, deep-sea divers shaking hands with octopuses, trains that looked like they were breaking the sound barrier while still in the station. It was science as adventure, technology as fantasy - equal parts inspiration and "wait, is that even possible?"
Sure, we live in the future now (kind of), but these covers are a reminder that people have always been dreaming big, tinkering, and imagining impossible things. So, step into a time machine made of paper and ink, and let's flip through some of the most jaw-dropping, wonderfully optimistic visions of the early 20th century.