We are still waiting on that flying car...
Amazingly accurate, predicting road rage, the RV, and government school computers.
Where’s my whale bus?
They did surprisingly well!...........
The 3 you posted aren’t wildly off the mark but I draw the line a seagull fishing.
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.
I didn’t see how many times the French were predicted to have surrendered to Germany...
#1 seems to have drive-by shootings in Detroit and Baltimore nailed.
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.
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.
We are still waiting on that flying car...
I’m still waiting for flying cars!
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!
Still don’t have those flying cars.
From the country of Jules Vern.
