Heinlein was very open with the fact that his "predictions" were from him looking at his current world, then 20, 40, 60 years back, and then extrapolating from there. For a guy who could walk from his family's jewelry store to the bank with a literal sack of cash at 12, seeing a world where there was no safety in big cities wasn't a stretch for 1959.
Heinlein was very open with the fact that his "predictions" were from him looking at his current world, then 20, 40, 60 years back, and then extrapolating from there. For a guy who could walk from his family's jewelry store to the bank with a literal sack of cash at 12, seeing a world where there was no safety in big cities wasn't a stretch for 1959.