I was methodically sorting out my Firefox bookmarks tonight, because that's the kind of thing I do when I'm sat at the computer doing anything but the work I'm supposed to be fucking doing, when I came across one of my favourite links. They're not highbrow art (they appeared as part of series of skits on a food label, it says here), but they were sincere depictations of what a Frenchman in 1910 thought the year 2000 would be like, and therein lies the mirth:
And the rest.
And the rest.
http://www.paleofuture.com/ is a blog dedicated to collecting past concepts of the future. Warning, will consume entire days of your life.
I want a copy of Usborne's Book of the Future.
Zen-Chan wrote:
http://www.paleofuture.com/ is a blog dedicated to collecting past concepts of the future. Warning, will consume entire days of your life.
I remember going on this on 1997:
That school one is fantastic. The first one is a bit weird though - what exactly is going on, and why do the women have no waists?
Kerrazy Frencher.
Kerrazy Frencher.
ChocoboOfDoom wrote:
I can't tell if this one predicts those 'interactive movies' as seen on the Mega CD and CDi, or webcam-assisted Skype conversations. Don't know any French at all, me. 
Hint - Correspondance means pretty much the same in both languages.
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