The People's Cube - Political Satire

An alert reader "Melinda" sent us a link to a collection of great and very useful inventions that had the potential to move the societal progress forward - if they hadn't been stopped, apparently by a conspiracy of business interests fueled by pure corporate greed.

One of such inventions is Cube Lube. I wish I invented that!

Any of our heroic People's Cube operators who daily engage in this non-competitive game of social progress, could use Cube Lube - instead of wasting valuable beet vodka mixed with potato oil and some dirt for lubricating the glorious red squares. Consider the countless man/woman/hours that could be saved for society with Cube Lube if only we could rotate the Cube faster, achieving the desired outcome ahead of schedule! We need to find the inventors and get the secret formula out of them at any cost and by any means possible in the name of the Common Good™!

Another great invention is an apparatus that "helps cure diseases of the head." This may well be the prototype for our very own JiffyLobo, except it's a lot more lightweight than our equipment that cures the diseased thinking. We may have to locate those inventors and get their secrets as well.~

See the rest of the unfairly suppressed inventions here.

You've Got To Be Kidding Me With Some Of These Products From Our Past – 35 Pics

Never mind the title - the sarcasm was obviously just a clever trick to circumnavigate the corporate censors, who would otherwise block this groundbreaking information from being shared with the people.

That dog-in-a-sack-on-the-running-board thing would make a great gift for Mitt Romney.

On the dimple maker, they forgot to add it will also make a thin red line that runs from both ears down both cheeks and around the chin. But you know what would really be cool and useful? A device that makes butt dimples.

And the person who invented the umbrella for cigarettes should've invented another one you can clip over the ladies' cigarette hat. Otherwise, if it starts raining, her whole supply will get soggy and what use will the umbrella be then?

Finally (or at least for now), I'd like to know how many people who bought that gum massager really, actually used it on their gums.

We have one of these in the Gulag Latrine but I believe it's worded a little differently . . . like Male and Female?

This is from the May 1958 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. I've always wondered how the Geniac home computer worked. If the Progs had thought of making home computers a public utility back in '58 we'd be using little better than the Geniac electronic brain kits today, totally subsidized of course.