Villemard Postcards Showing the Year 2000, in 1910
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 areāsome 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.
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