A 19th-Century Vision of the Year 2000

„A series of futuristic pictures by Jean-Marc Côté and other artists issued in France in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1910. 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 then distant year of 2000.[...]“

Quelle: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/a-19th-century-vision-of-the-year-2000

#fediLZ #geschichte #englisch

Lost Futures: A 19th-Century Vision of the Year 2000

Future visions of everyday life in the year 2000, from a series of French fin-de-siècle postcards.

The Public Domain Review
@derautomation so viele der Vorstellungen liegen weit von der heutigen Realität entfernt, aber das Schulmodell mit dem Eintrichtern wird ja vielerorts praktiziert…
@ueberbildung Es wird weniger, aber es gibt es noch 😔