The Internet Archive has made available several, if not all, issues of OMNI Magazine which was first published in 1978 and continued with some breaks and, eventually, as an online magazine til 1998. OMNI Magazine published a unique blend of articles on science, technological development, technology forecasts and science fiction stories. I remember the magazine very well, although I was but a tyke more likely to be out terrorizing my town on my banana-seat bicycle than reading heady stuff like OMNI Magazine. I suspect that my father may have had a subscription or he would buy the magazines at the bookstore. However they ended up in our house, they are something that I clearly remember browsing and being fascinated by the pictures and topics in the magazine.
I wouldn’t have been aware of it then, but I realize now what a unique concept it is to include in one publication science and technology past, present and future. What better way to inspire the types of forward-looking thought leaders that our current increasingly dynamic times require. I know of no publication, past or present/electronic or physical, that accomplishes the same thing with the level of depth that OMNI Magazine achieved.
Please, correct me if I’m wrong. I’d love to know…
