Predicting how technology will evolve over the course of the next 12 months (as Tnooz tries every year) is tricky enough – but what about 100 years into the future?
A group of French artists (including Jean-Marc Côté) in 1899 put together a series of pictures for the 1900 Exposition Universelle (World Exhibition) in Paris, illustrating how society and technology would change over the course of the next century.
First of all we would probably all be taking airborne taxis everywhere…
…but you could have to be careful of the local police…
…holiday rentals, hotels, bed and breakfasts, motels – all on the road…
…as the cruise industry gets cosy with mother nature…
…and who needs diving tours and activities when you have sea-bed croquet…
NB: Pictures courtesy of Public Domain Review, via Wikimedia Commons. Hat-tip – Gizmodo.
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If the above pictures are just artistic imaginations, what about the scientists and inventors?
Did they come up with something similar to that?
These are delightful. It’s always the artists and writers who predict, and invent, the future… for the scientists and inventors to explore. It’s amazing how much sci-fi actually predicted or molded our present.
These were great. Well played!
in 1985 i was promised that by 2015 I would get a hover-board. Clock is ticking…..