Plastics made what possible?

Tonight, the Rake’s happy hour book club meets with regular Rake contributor Eric Dregni and his brother, Jonathan. These two co-authored the new book Follies of Science: 20th Century Visions of Our Fantastic Future, which rehashes all the more fantastical, mid-century predictions for the new millennium, most of which never came true, of course. We’re talkin’ jet packs and hovercrafts, robot warfare, space colonies, babes clad in little more than pleather bunhuggers and plastic breastplates, and what not.