Imagining the future
Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society points to a very fun blog called Paleo-Future: A look into the future that never was.
Check out these wonderful futurist cards made around 1900 by a German chocolate manufacturer, including The Moving Pavement and House-Moving by Train, below.
And a bit of poking around revealed a copy of a December 1900 article in The Ladies’ Home Journal that is strangely prescient:
What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years
Man will See Around the World. Persons and things of all kinds will be brought within focus of cameras connected electrically with screens at opposite ends of circuits, thousands of miles at a span…
Store Purchases by Tube. Pneumatic tubes, instead of store wagons, will deliver packages and bundles…
Photographs will be Telegraphed from any distance. If there be a battle in China a hundred years hence snapshots of its most striking events will be published in the newspapers an hour later…
Ready-Cooked Meals will be Bought from establishments similar to our bakeries of to-day…
Telephone Around the World. Wireless telephone and telegraph circuits will span the world…
And actually, pretty much everything in the Future Cities and House of the Future categories is great too!