"In the Year 2000" -- artists in 1900 France drew what the world would look like 100 years later

[Dan Druff]

Video call:


FaceTime (2010)







"The Rural Postman"


Drone package delivery (2014, but still not common yet)









"Electric Scrubbing"


Roomba (2002)








"Intensive Breeding"


GMOs (1996): https://allianceforscience.cornell.e...rogress-ahead/








"A Well Trained Orchestra"


Robots playing music (2017)









"A House Rolling Through the Countryside"


Motorhome (this one is 1968, but there were motorhomes as far back as 1910!)

[Dan Druff]

But then there's weird shit like this:





Anyway, have a look for yourself: https://publicdomainreview.org/colle...000-1899-1910/

[PLOL]

He thought we'd still be dressing the same?

[Dan Druff]

He thought we'd still be dressing the same?

He also thought all planes would have propellers, and cops would use them to fight criminals with mechanical wings.

[Lord of the Fraud]

It sorta makes sense though.

It isn't some Nostradamus type shit, it's just pure imagination based on what could be genuinely possible in the future. Like I bet most people during that period believed flying would someday be a real posibilty.

Also, the first photograph using a camera was taken about 80 years prior to those predictions. So you can see were that imaginary thought process about Facetime came from.

The first electric device was made well before 1900, so you can see how they made the leap on the floor cleaning gadget.

Certainly interesting but I don't think there's much to see here.

[hongkonger]

Isn't this his the one with the whale bus?

[Dan Druff]

Isn't this his the one with the whale bus?

Yes, the artist had an obsession with people doing things underwater.

[hongkonger]