The day after to-morrow

This wide-ranging projection into the future from the vantage point of 1928 looks at expected changes in the areas of culture, medicine, politics, technology and international affairs. It is more entertaining for what it gets wrong, but hits a few of the many targets. "The ranks of the new armies will be filled by women as well as men. There will be squadrons of women pilots, and armoured cars will be driven into the fighting line by those whom we now call 'flappers.'" Gibbs gives a detailed nod to the possibility of atomic energy supplanting fossil fuels, and the potential for weapons, …