Posted on 10/04/2015 10:29:43 AM PDT by EveningStar
There are few things as fascinating as seeing what people in the past dreamed about the future.
"France in the Year 2000" is one example. The series of paintings, made by Jean-Marc Côté and other French artists in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1910, shows artist depictions of what life might look like in the year 2000. The first series of images were printed and enclosed in cigarette and cigar boxes around the time of the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris, according to the Public Domain Review, then later turned into postcards.
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Thanks for posting this article. I enjoyed it.
We need the flying firemen, by the way. That was a good idea.
Many people predicting the future suffer from the Jetsons syndrome. They believe that the people of the future will have many fancy gadgets, but that this will not impact their character and behavior.
Experience has shown that this is not so.
Thank you for the laughs!
Like today’s global warming predictions.
They had a sort of Jules Verne steampunk thing going on. I’d be in fear for my life in that mechanized barbershop full of robotic arms with scissors, though.
Now why would you post such an offensive picture on an uplifting thread?
Wapo is the joyless tortise of the old media. FR had a thread several years ago about the French art, the subject of the posted piece.
Would have to search my archive HDs to get the date stamp on saved pix.
The full range is amusing, especially the flying postman.
A lot of farming is very much automated. I’ve seen driverless tractors doing their thing in fields.
Present Brains can’t predict the future ?
Computerized automation is the new future we face and it will change things far beyond our imagination including our economy.
Outside of that, your guess is as good as mine, but we can bet there will be incredible change sooner rather than later.
You look at our world from the 1990’s and compared to 2015, there’s not a whole lot of visual distinction, it doesn’t really look all that different. Houses are largely the same, cars, planes, clothing. What changed isn’t all that easily depicted, from the vantage point of then. Extend that out a century and it gets even weirder. Where they’re right or close to it, it’s still off-kilter because of incorrect assumptions elsewhere.
Can’t we have a thread without this a$$****?
No, I haven't gone liberal, I just don't drive anymore.
/johnny
Kipling’s “With the Night Mail”
https://archive.org/details/withnightmailsto00kipluoft
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