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The Year 2000 as Seen by 19th Century Artists
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Posted on 02/13/2013 12:39:44 PM PST by GVnana
Originally in the form of paper cards enclosed in cigarette/cigar boxes and, later, as postcards, the images depicted the world as it was imagined to be like in the year 2000. There are at least 87 cards known that were authored by various French artists, the first series being produced for the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris.
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More at the link. How did they do?
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posted on
02/13/2013 12:39:47 PM PST
by
GVnana
To: GVnana
Amazingly accurate, predicting road rage, the RV, and government school computers.
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posted on
02/13/2013 12:42:34 PM PST
by
Argus
To: Argus
Actually, #3 could be Facebook.
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posted on
02/13/2013 12:44:16 PM PST
by
Argus
To: GVnana
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posted on
02/13/2013 12:45:26 PM PST
by
Drew68
To: GVnana
They did surprisingly well!...........
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posted on
02/13/2013 12:46:17 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
To: GVnana
The 3 you posted aren’t wildly off the mark but I draw the line a seagull fishing.
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posted on
02/13/2013 12:46:55 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: Drew68
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posted on
02/13/2013 12:47:59 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
To: Argus
Actually, #3 could be Facebook. number 3 is very much government school... spot on...
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posted on
02/13/2013 12:49:19 PM PST
by
latina4dubya
( self-proclaimed tequila snob)
To: Argus
“At School” is pretty close if you replace the book machine with a bunch of Ipods
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posted on
02/13/2013 12:49:39 PM PST
by
dfwright
(The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left (Eccl. 10:2, NIV))
To: GVnana
I think they did very well.
I notice that many of the artists were influenced by Jules Verne. I guess that is due to the fact that "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" was a huge best seller just a few year prior.
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posted on
02/13/2013 12:51:49 PM PST
by
Tupelo
(Hunkered down & loading up)
To: GVnana
Arthur Clarke once observed about predictions that humans tend to be over-optimistic in the short run and under-optimistic in the long run. At the age of ten, I thought I’d be vacationing on Mars by now but I never imagined the Internet.
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posted on
02/13/2013 12:58:32 PM PST
by
muir_redwoods
(Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
To: GVnana
I didn’t see how many times the French were predicted to have surrendered to Germany...
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posted on
02/13/2013 12:59:52 PM PST
by
JRios1968
(I'm guttery and trashy, with a hint of lemon. - Laz)
To: GVnana
#1 seems to have drive-by shootings in Detroit and Baltimore nailed.
To: GVnana
The one I liked the most is the postal worker flying to deliver paper mail. It shows how people take whatever the new thing is of their time (flying, in this case) and expand it beyond reason or practicality, but fail to imagine other innovations, like the fact that paper mail is now fairly obsolete. I always love looking at these though because its a real insight into how people used to think.
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posted on
02/13/2013 1:04:39 PM PST
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: muir_redwoods
“At the age of ten, I thought Id be vacationing on Mars by now but I never imagined the Internet.”
I just want my flying car :)
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posted on
02/13/2013 1:05:01 PM PST
by
Owl558
("Those who remember George Satayana are doomed to repeat him")
To: GVnana
During my high school years I used to have an on again, off again summer job working as a deck hand on shrimp boats. I actually did go fishing for sea gulls.
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posted on
02/13/2013 1:05:10 PM PST
by
ops33
(Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
To: ops33
I actually caught a seagull on my line while fishing. I think he was diving for my bait. It was a real mess trying to get a hook out of a pissed off gull..........
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posted on
02/13/2013 1:08:30 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
To: GVnana
We are still waiting on that flying car...
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posted on
02/13/2013 1:09:48 PM PST
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: JRios1968
6 months ago I would have never believed FReepers would declare Americans to be war criminals over treatment of nazi Germany.
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posted on
02/13/2013 1:10:11 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: GVnana
I’m still waiting for flying cars!
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posted on
02/13/2013 1:11:50 PM PST
by
rochester_veteran
( http://RochesterConservative.com/forums)
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