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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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How People In The Past Imagined The Future

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Troux
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think this is the plan for the near future, minus the pilot.

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Daniel Losinger
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This one exists. I will be using something like this to watch the solar eclipse this month.

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is not far off, except we use satellites instead of wires.

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

They were already dreaming of thoses flying cars 5th Element style... and we are still waiting for them :'(

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Lets see.... the PBY-5 Catalina, the P3 Orion? However, this is not a torpedo plane, this is a bomber, like the B-17, B-52, or the AC 130 Hercules.

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Stina Kolling
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.)

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Margaret Shannon
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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