Published in 1942, to LIfe Magazine.

Albert Robida born in France, (14 May 1848 – 11 October 1926) was an illustrator, etcher, lithographer, caricaturist, and novelist. He edited and published La Caricature magazine for 12 years. Through the 1880s, he wrote an acclaimed trilogy of futuristic novels. Which are still available now, but most are in French.

I did find several of his books, translated to English. They can be read online at Book Read Free - Albert Robida Each book has a summary and then page by page of the book below. Digital download isn't available for the book as a whole. I may turn up something like that yet.

Albert Robida: A Visionary Illustrator Shaping the Dawn of Modernity

This lithograph from 1882 depicts the fanciful world of 2000; flying buses, towering restaurants, and of course, 1880's French attire. Albert Robida is less well-known than Jules Verne but contributed just as much to the collective imagination through his amazing illustrations.

Quoted from Paleofuture - Going to the Opera in the Year 2000 (1882)

Albert Robida - Encyclopedia Britannica

Science fiction (in French) from Albert Robida.

You can read it online, or just look at the drawings if you can't read French. I did find a translation on Amazon.

I'm not posting this to upset or poke the US people with sticks. Predictions of the future always interest me. Ironic that this is written with the perspective of someone from the Middle East coming to the remains of the US in the year 2951.

Of course, most of this shows how people were thinking in 1882. No one can predict the future and get it right. Every prediction is based on what we already know, our current time period. I don't think anyone could correctly predict the future 200 years from now. Too many little things will change, too many to understand from where we are now.

The Last American "Short future history novel from John Ames Mitchell (1845–1918). First published in 1889, it is the fictional journal of Persian admiral Khan-Li, who in the year 2951 rediscovers North America by sailing across the Atlantic."

Another post from Paleofuture - Postcards Show the Year 2000 (circa 1900)

postcards were produced by Hildebrands (a leading German chocolate company of the time).

Walking on water. A moving sidewalk. House movers, by train. Televised broadcasting. Individual flying machines. Controlling the weather. Travel on land and sea. Underwater tourism. Cities under glass, or something clear. Family air ships, when the flying machine isn't enough. Comfortable travel to exotic, extreme locations. See through walls with x-ray.

My Grandmother had a dream about moving sidewalks, but with cars travelling on them. Maybe in 2050?

A collection from The National Library of France (BnF). But, I can't find it on the site. Here are images found on two other sites.

Postcards from a Frenchman named Villemard from 1910. Posted to The Red Umbrella, Old timey visions of the year 2000.

... apparently slipped into food packaging in the same way that baseball cards used to be handed out with bubblegum and cigarettes.

Each of the postcards shares a vision of what life in France would look like in the year 2000. And it's crazy how familiar a lot of the scenes are—some because we kind of actually do use the devices he imagined and some because they're full of stuff we're still hoping for. Like, for instance, when the hell are we finally going to get to fly around everywhere all time?

When it comes to fashion, however, Villemard doesn't seem to have expected it change at all over the 90 years. (Except, you know, for all the people wearing wings.)

More are posted to Paleofuture.