Promises for the future were made; some sadly broken and some unfortunately honored. While we didn’t get household jetpacks and personal serving-drinks-by-the-pool robots, or even our orgasmatrons, we did get things like the super-fantastic building materials of the future—asbestos, lead, and foam. So just what was the utopian master plan for future households during the early twentieth century? Follies of Science is the keeper of such knowledge, offering glimpses into sparkling, smooth lead paint covering our living room walls, dazzling DDT foggers killing mosquitoes dead, alchemists transforming atoms into gold and diamonds, homeowners living in “The Foam House of the Future,” and, of course, commuters blasting away on their jet packs to work. Utopian indeed. Aptly illustrated with full-color and black-and-white classic imagery, the visions of the future spread across page after page, pulling the reader in to what could have been and what shouldn’t have been. As featured in the book, space artist Chesley Bonestall's work can be seen here.