Mad Dawg: Ummm. Actually, the picture show the plane and the missle flying AWAY from the WTC. It isn't predicting anything. Just using common, 1975 images of technology.
Daniel-P: Believe it or not, the World Trade Center was a popular icon after it was built, and appeared in many magazines and photographs.
Right on, Mad and Dan. The World Trade Center (considered by many a great scientific achievement) had been freshly constructed only 2 years before this Watchtower article.
Naturally, Watchtower had nothing better to do than to downgrade this and other scientific achievements, the very reason for this 1975 article and its accompanying graphic that Blondie so graciously shared.
*** w75 2/15 p. 99 Will Science Really Solve Your Problems? ***
True, science has made some remarkable advances. Nevertheless, in spite of its often sincere attempts to prevent it, hunger gnaws at more bellies than ever. "Scientific" crime-fighting equipment has not cut down lawlessness; rather, it has continued to mushroom and spread from urban ghettos into once-quiet rural areas. Air and water are befouled with pollutants. Science also gets the blame from some for arming missiles with ghastly power and aiming these at the major cities of the world.
So, as 1975 dawns, even those who once promoted science are not so cocksure about its potency for good.
Let's not forget this was at the tail end of their push to call attention to 1975 and how disastrous things were probably just around the corner. In reality, the real disaster was their need to regret the 1975 hype some 5 years later.
*** w80 3/15 p. 17 par. 5 Choosing the Best Way of Life ***
...considerable expectation was aroused regarding the year 1975. There were statements made then, and thereafter, stressing that this was only a possibility. Unfortunately, however, along with such cautionary information, there were other statements published that implied that such realization of hopes by that year was more of a probability than a mere possibility. It is to be regretted that these latter statements apparently overshadowed the cautionary ones and contributed to a buildup of the expectation already initiated.
Len