What people in 1900 thought the year 2000 would look like

[gorobei]

man if they couldnt get their aviation police and divers on horseback after 1000 years, im never gonna get a jetson flying car and jetpack.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...n-1900-thought-the-year-2000-would-look-like/


oddly the automated manufacturing and labor isnt too far off.

 

[ImpulsE69]

You mean...100 years right?

 

[Strk]

Those giant eagles just won't go away! Who knew Peter Jackson is over 100 years old?

 

[gorobei]

You mean...100 years right?

yeah, my keyboard is crap. some of the rubber domes are starting to fail.

 

[SKORPI0]

Battle-Cars
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/france-in-the-year-2000-1899-1910/ :biggrin::awe:

 

[TheGardener]

thanks for the link. enjoyed it.

 

[ultimatebob]

Battle-Cars
http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/france-in-the-year-2000-1899-1910/ :biggrin::awe:

They aren't all that far off on that one.

Hell... they had tanks and armored personnel carriers by the end of World War I.

 

[Printer Bandit]

without reverse engineer alien technology, we wouldn't have the transistor.


read the day after roswell.

 

[mmntech]

While I'm sure this series of photos is meant to be whimsical rather than an attempt to actually predict the future, a lot of these did come to pass.

The New Fangled Barber: Electric shavers and hair clippers

An Areal Battle: Germen Zeppelins and Riesenflugzeug bombers during WWI, which evolved into literal "Flying Fortresses" in WWII.

Electric Scrubbing: Roomba sells cleaning robots that can vacuum and scrub.

A Very Busy Farmer: Mechanized farming and GPS controlled tractors and combines.

Advanced Sentinel in a Helicopter: Early experiments with military helicopters for recon and evac during WW2, which was further refined in Korea and Vietnam.

Intensive Breeding: Factory farms.

A Well Trained Orchestra: Modern keyboards and computers pack entire orchestras in a box.

Madame at her Toilette: More electric grooming tools we use every day.

Battle Cars: Tanks and armoured cars

A Torpedo Plane: Fighters and strategic bombers developed during WWI.

A Whale Bus: Maybe not with whales but there are tourist submarines.

 

[TheGardener]

They did seem to miss the advancement in sex robots.

 

[lxskllr]

Why would anyone want to fish for seagulls? I guess french fries hadn't been invented yet...

 

[GagHalfrunt]

I for one would welcome our new seahorse jockey overlords.