Volume 48, Number 18 · November 15, 2001
The Future of Science, and the Universe
By Steven Weinberg
In the program for a lecture series at the New York Public Library I saw one vision of the future: Raymond Loewy's conception of an airliner, as exhibited at the 1939 World's Fair in New York.[1] I was there at the 1939 World's Fair, but I don't remember Raymond Loewy's design. I was very young. What I best remember are the fountains lit up by colored lights. Also, I remember that a dairy company was giving out tiny free ice cream cones. With the Depression still going on, free ice cream was a memorable experience. Whatever predictions of future technology were made at the World's Fair did not leave much of an impression on me.
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