This is one of those things printed in 50s popular tech magazines that seem possible at first but just gets worse the more you think about them. For one thing, an accident would have the potential to be a cross between Fukushima and the Amoco Cadiz. A subtle clue is the name Saunders-Roe, an outfit that specialized in oddball/doomed things like hovercraft and the Black Prince rocket.
Printed in Popular Mechanics, December 1958, artist is "cutaway king" G. H. Davis
People are always complaining about how #TheJetsons promised flying cars, but at this point, I'd settle for the bed that helps you stand up in the morning.
"The Panama Canal lies open and exposed to attack by modern bombers. Ships wait in line for their turns to thread its outgrown passage from sea to sea...WHY NOT BUILD A TUNNEL FOR SHIPS FROM ATLANTIC TO PACIFIC?"
Art for an article by Jorge Cortinez Delfino in June 1956's Popular Mechanics, signed "Weeks". I haven't been able to find the artist's full name.
I've been reading about Soviet mega-engineering visions, but happened across this New World one this morning.
Kyle Sudrow was an actor, not hugely famous but most associated with the soap opera The Guiding Light.
He also did some work for the SF radio programs X Minus One and Dimension X. So, rather appropriately, he tried to launch a little bit of the future in the early 60s with the Helipod, a one-person VTOL craft.