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Thomas Frey - Senior Futurist at the DaVinci Institute
April 28th, 2007 at 10:03 pm

Postcards in 1900 Predict the Future

Postcards from 1900 speculating what life would be like in the year 2000. While they nailed the escalator and did pretty well on the TV, I’m still waiting for my Weather Dominator.

A Quick Stroll on the Water


Paleo-Future reader Tom T. sent me an amazing collection of postcards from the dawn of the twentieth century that depict what life would be like in the year 2000. According to Tom the postcards were originally featured here but have since been removed. The site claimed that the postcards were produced by Hildebrands (a leading German chocolate company of the time).

The Moving Pavement

 

House-Moving by Train

 
Televised Outside Broadcasting

Personal Flying Machines

Weather Control Machine

 

Combined Ship and Railway Locomotive

Undersea Tourist Boats

 

Roofed Cities

 

Personal Airships

 

Summer Holidays at the North Pole

 

Police X-Ray Surveillance Machine

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