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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Video telephony as imagined in the year 2000, as imagined in 1910. From a French card.
SKYPE!..........
Boy they got that one way off, I mean the woman would pretty much be naked.
Victorian era morals prohibited such thoughts. Even an ankle showing was considered risque........
A Sea Rescue
Hearing the newspaper
They got these very close........
Presaging the La-Z-boy?
“I always love looking at these though because its a real insight into how people used to think.”
People still think the same ways. Anyone today who dreams of something interesting can count on being shouted down as a fool or etc. just the same as those souls 113 years ago were probably ridiculed by ‘proper society’ for their flights of fancy.
I remember my friends laughing at me for thinking that Facebook was cooler than MySpace.
“6 months ago I would have never believed FReepers would declare Americans to be war criminals over treatment of nazi Germany.”
I’m sure the Nazis never expected that Americans in 2013 would eventually support them.
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