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How People Imagined The Future 34 Years Ago
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It is interesting to look, how people that lived more than hundred years ago imagined the times we now live in. I have compiled a collection of postcards created by artists in the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century on the subject of the Millennium.
Many things depicted on them seem to be funny, but some ideas became a reality.
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This one exists. I will be using something like this to watch the solar eclipse this month.
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They were already dreaming of thoses flying cars 5th Element style... and we are still waiting for them :'(
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I understand the down vote but remember who creat this picture: a French male from 19th/ early 20th. We're seeing this from our actual point of view and we are all glad this vision of the futur did not realise! But in case some people forgot, Europeans at that time had colonies and that was how they saw the Natives. Colonies were just good for their raw material, cheap workforce (very very close to slavery), showing domination of white peoples... white people giving themselves good conscience by Christianizing and "educating" those "poor/good savages". I'm a little sad this picture got buried, because it's hidding what actually happened, what we are responsible for....
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More like air-taxi. "Pilot, let me out at the Louvre Musem [please]". (I'm adding the word 'please' because it's polite to treat your taxi driver like a real live person who deserves respect.)
#32
It's interesting to see that while envisioning a future in which ordinary tasks were mechanized and air travel and underwater life became commonplace, the class system was preserved. Also persisting unchanged: sex roles, racial prejudice, war and violence, and the confinement of women's sexuality,
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They obviously believed that we would just add wings to EVERYTHING!! LOL
Yes this was the time!You can tell it was the time of discoveries, trying to "dominate" wild nature, animals and sadly other humans... You can tell this is french too because of all the wine featured in these pics lol (no bashing, i'm french).the pilot who stop to have his glass on a balcony is so fun! Thank you for the post Braslav
I didn't know that The Louvre and a lot of other Paris buildings and streets were reproduced in Belgium and Swiss. I thought it was just in Vegas, sorry for my lack of education.
French are not the only one to speek french ;p Could have been Belgian artists or Swiss. But details like french flag on the colony 2.0 one let no doubt.
Or maybe you can tell because the name of the company stamped on every card is in French.
Either wings or underwater.
They'd be disappointed to know that women did not cover their knees is 2000.
Only the ones who didn't want it (totally sarcastic by the way)
Bruh they are obsessed with wings and underwater
They obviously believed that we would just add wings to EVERYTHING!! LOL
Yes this was the time!You can tell it was the time of discoveries, trying to "dominate" wild nature, animals and sadly other humans... You can tell this is french too because of all the wine featured in these pics lol (no bashing, i'm french).the pilot who stop to have his glass on a balcony is so fun! Thank you for the post Braslav
I didn't know that The Louvre and a lot of other Paris buildings and streets were reproduced in Belgium and Swiss. I thought it was just in Vegas, sorry for my lack of education.
French are not the only one to speek french ;p Could have been Belgian artists or Swiss. But details like french flag on the colony 2.0 one let no doubt.
Or maybe you can tell because the name of the company stamped on every card is in French.
Either wings or underwater.
They'd be disappointed to know that women did not cover their knees is 2000.
Only the ones who didn't want it (totally sarcastic by the way)
Bruh they are obsessed with wings and underwater