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Fan Slants, v. 1, issue 1, September 1943
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8.......................................................................FAN SLATS him one of the top aircraft manufacturers of the United States. Who are we armchair engineers to say that something can be done now when there are experts in the various fields doing their utmost to prove we are right----yet unable to achieve their goal. Time is the missing factor, not brains or possibilities. A lot lies ahead but let us get back to the present and what [underlined] can be. Television is now technically possible and should boom after the war as concerns now engaged in war work resume the unending battle of advertising for peacetime markets. Frequency modulation (which will permit simultaneous aural broadcasting and facsimile transmission on the same channel) has been opened to the consumer----and industry leaders say that all receivers (excepting those horrid jalopies) planned for postwar production will include FM. A picture is worth ten thousand words, according to the Chinese, and the schools of tomorrow will turn more and more to pictorial education. The experience of the Columbia School of the air and similar organizations, plus developments in television tech-nique, may bring about even more startling innovations in educa-tion by radio. The student of tomorrow, be he child or adult, will be able to receive instruction from the nation's foremost educators instead of the limited facilities of the average grade- or high- school. Even scientifiction fans are developing things which will be-come valuable assets in the very near future. Forry Ackerman's simplified spelling will make things easier for the secretary of tomorrow. Phonetic spelling of this type would simplify the English language a great deal. Too much of our spelling is a hang-over from the Elizabethan era, when form rather than speed was the demand of the time and education for the masses had not yet occurred to even the dreamers. Dehydrated foods have been developed tremendously under the pressure of the shipping and metal shortages, and the millions of dollars already invested in equipment and processes are a sure guarantee that they will be introduced to the general public af-ter the war. The vitamin has wrought tremendous changes in the health of the nation. Without the developments in indus-trial feeding and the unusually high percentage of drugstore sales volume attributed to vitamin concentrates. New alloys and processes have saved thousands of tons of stra-tegic metals for more important uses. Developments in plastics and plastic adhesives herald a tremendous struggle among wood, plastics and metals in the construction field. The trend is clearly from the natural to the artificial. The society of tomorrow will be still more dependent on the products of the retort and rolling mill for their well being. We may cry "back to nature!" as much as we please, but eventually we must yield to scientists' and engineers' belief that our future is in the laboratory and the machine. So I say: Why talk of the "wonders of tomorrow" when tomorrow has already made itself known. Break down the cynicism and the oudated prejudices of today, take away the doubt and hostility that lingers in our minds, and our tomorrow will have arrived.
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8.......................................................................FAN SLATS him one of the top aircraft manufacturers of the United States. Who are we armchair engineers to say that something can be done now when there are experts in the various fields doing their utmost to prove we are right----yet unable to achieve their goal. Time is the missing factor, not brains or possibilities. A lot lies ahead but let us get back to the present and what [underlined] can be. Television is now technically possible and should boom after the war as concerns now engaged in war work resume the unending battle of advertising for peacetime markets. Frequency modulation (which will permit simultaneous aural broadcasting and facsimile transmission on the same channel) has been opened to the consumer----and industry leaders say that all receivers (excepting those horrid jalopies) planned for postwar production will include FM. A picture is worth ten thousand words, according to the Chinese, and the schools of tomorrow will turn more and more to pictorial education. The experience of the Columbia School of the air and similar organizations, plus developments in television tech-nique, may bring about even more startling innovations in educa-tion by radio. The student of tomorrow, be he child or adult, will be able to receive instruction from the nation's foremost educators instead of the limited facilities of the average grade- or high- school. Even scientifiction fans are developing things which will be-come valuable assets in the very near future. Forry Ackerman's simplified spelling will make things easier for the secretary of tomorrow. Phonetic spelling of this type would simplify the English language a great deal. Too much of our spelling is a hang-over from the Elizabethan era, when form rather than speed was the demand of the time and education for the masses had not yet occurred to even the dreamers. Dehydrated foods have been developed tremendously under the pressure of the shipping and metal shortages, and the millions of dollars already invested in equipment and processes are a sure guarantee that they will be introduced to the general public af-ter the war. The vitamin has wrought tremendous changes in the health of the nation. Without the developments in indus-trial feeding and the unusually high percentage of drugstore sales volume attributed to vitamin concentrates. New alloys and processes have saved thousands of tons of stra-tegic metals for more important uses. Developments in plastics and plastic adhesives herald a tremendous struggle among wood, plastics and metals in the construction field. The trend is clearly from the natural to the artificial. The society of tomorrow will be still more dependent on the products of the retort and rolling mill for their well being. We may cry "back to nature!" as much as we please, but eventually we must yield to scientists' and engineers' belief that our future is in the laboratory and the machine. So I say: Why talk of the "wonders of tomorrow" when tomorrow has already made itself known. Break down the cynicism and the oudated prejudices of today, take away the doubt and hostility that lingers in our minds, and our tomorrow will have arrived.
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