How intriguing it is to wonder how people in the past thought about the future! What did they envision? What was grossly far fetched? What will always be impossible from current knowledge, and what was actually not that badly guessed? And most of all: What miracles did they miss? What things were far to advanced to even foresee in, say 1950?
These postcards from France are hilarious yet slightly disturbing. 2000 in 1900 looked mechanistically batwinged:
This one is terrible:
This farming on is actually quite interesting since this concept became largely true, I mean, figuratively (in some parts of the world OMG *SO MANY PEOPLE still farming with their hands [I should exercise more])
The lifelong dream of effortless learning. Still not at all there. We need to work on that:
The 50s and 60s were a great time for futuristic dreams and illustrations. How awesome. In those moon-landing, nuclear war thread manic-depressive time, they had visions:
[Post without link or source? The poor creators!Am I allowed to do this? At least mention a name here: Klaus Bürkle]
OMGG THERE IS A WHOLE BLOG ABOUT THIS, I DON’T HAVE TO WRITE MORE
Oh, and include this reddit:
[Is this like enough for a post!?! This is super incoherent. But nice pictures. Should I write more? People will not like this]
North Korea loves futurism btw, which makes me wonder a bit…
