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Here’s How People 100 Years Ago Thought We’d Be Living Today

By Greg Miller (Wired)

 

“In 100 years, there will be flying taxis and people will travel to the moon routinely. Knowledge will be instilled into students through wires attached to their heads. These may sound like the predictions of modern-day futurists, but they’re how people a century ago saw the future–otherwise known to you and me as the present.

 

These vintage European postcards illustrate a view of the 21st century that is remarkably prescient in some ways and hilariously wrong in others, says Ed Fries, who selected them from his private collection…”

 

Click here for the rest, and click the image below to see the pictures.

 

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With the propeller churning and the spotlight on their destination, a group of travelers returns from the moon in the year 2012. Sure, we actually went to the moon in 1969, but this image suggests that lunar travel would become routine, Fries says. “Just another weekend trip.”
Courtesy of Ed Fries

 

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