Generation Y was lied to about the future, sure – still no Back To The Future style hoverboards, people – but just think about how the poor bastards who came of age in the 1950s and 60s must feel. Every single thing they read and heard was some wide-eyed appraisal of how, one day, we’d all be donning magic space pants and leg-jiggling our way to the Neptune High School prom.

It’s heartbreaking on an epic scale, then, to realise that 99% of the predictions made just didn’t come true. Like this fine little fella from a 1951 edition of Mechanix Illustrated – a piece entitled Helicopters For Everybody which paints a utopian vision that even Barack Obama would feel a bit dubious about offering up.