For as long as anyone can remember, Americans have imagined the future\u2014from the flying cars and 3-hour workdays of The Jetsons to World War III and nuclear holocaust. Sometimes we\u2019ve even made those dreams come true, or at least we\u2019ve tried. On this episode of BackStory, Brian, Ed and Peter kick off the new year by asking what past visions of the future tell us about the times that conjured them.\n
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