What did the future look like through the eyes of Soviet people? This is clearly shown in the journal Technics for Youth, which began to appear in the USSR in 1933. The authors imagined how underground cities, nuclear planes, an elevator leading to the bottom of the sea, and much more would appear. Some of the predictions about “beautiful far away” have come true today.
Each issue of the Technics for Youth magazine had a special section “Window to the Future”, where the authors tried to predict what the 21st century would look like. Let's take a look at some of the most intriguing ideas posted in the magazine from its earliest issues to the late 1970s.
Underground cities: "The project of the underground city is a utopia generated by the fear of a future war."
Elevators to the bottom of the sea.
Monophone - this is how the answering machine from the future was imagined.
Promotional video:
Aircraft in the form of rockets.
And here is the plane, dropping small bombs on the fields that plow and fertilize the soil.
Pulse cannon.
An invisible magnetic field that disables tanks.
"Polar ball" intended for living in the Arctic. If the ice begins to melt, the ball will not sink.
Floating snowmobiles for movement in the Arctic.
Half submarine, again for Arctic waters.
Electroplane is an apparatus that flies due to electromagnetic waves.
Airship-wind turbine.
Reactive stratoglider for exploring the stratosphere.
Steam locomotive, car and ship with an improved steam engine powered by a spiral turbine.
Similar to an airplane that runs on trolley wires.
A nuclear aircraft that can be in the air for months.
Artificial satellite of the planet.
Orbital station.
First ideas about the base located on the Moon: "And we will be on the Moon …"
Monorail train.
"City-mountain" (city of skyscrapers) for 55 million people and "city-tower" for 24 thousand people.
Artificial snow slopes.
Human-controlled robots.
Robot climber.
Fast car wing.
Trackless trains.
Boots-runners of the future.
Author: sdv