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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From what I see among the 2 dimensional drivers, the last thing I want to do is add a 3rd.
+100
I'D SAY THEY WERE PRETTY CLOSE!.......
Battle cars: that could be either a look ever further into the future and seeing Mad Max,, or the unscrubbed masses dragging Olvera Street in Los Angeles.
What intrigued me was the many cards depicting domestication of the animals, particularly sea life - whale buses, fish races, and seahorse riders.
2000 was a depiction of man’s dominion of the air and sea. The selection offered did not show any space exploration. Or perhaps mastery of the underseas was seen as more likely and would produce more benefit to man in food resources and travel.
The aviation police was eerily prescient of the drones today.
Many more can be seen at the original source
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=france+in+the+year+2000&title=Special%3ASearch
They really missed how casual and for late-19th century people shocking clothes would dominate.
They got the school indoctrination (#3) right. Throwing out the books (history) to feed the propaganda. Spot on!
They got the school indoctrination (#3) right. Throwing out the books (history) to feed the propaganda. Spot on!
I'D SAY THEY WERE PRETTY CLOSE!.......
Yes, they were. Dr Gatling's marvelous invention lives on in this modern implementation:
Yep, everyone’s disappointed that there is no ubiquitous flying cars already.
Still don’t have those flying cars.
From the country of Jules Vern.
While vacationing in Cornwall last May with the wife, we were in a seaside town walking down the street behind a group of three or four people one of whom was eating an ice cream cone. The guy had the cone held outstretched in his right hand. Lickety split, a seagull dove in and snatched the cone right out of the guy's hand. Was he ever stunned. Then he started laughing. Maybe because we were all laughing.
I love seagulls.
We have the same problems here with herons and pellicans........
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