Table of contents:
- 1. Moving sidewalks
- 2. Moving home by train
- 3. Walking on water
- 4. Personal airships
- 5. Submarines
- 6. Airships at the North Pole
- 7. Police installations with X-rays for surveillance
- 8. A hybrid of a ship and a locomotive
- 9. The city under the canopy
- 10. Weather control machine
- 11. Flights in the sky
- 12. Broadcasting the performance at a distance
Video: Life in the Year 2000: Victorian People's Ideas of the World 100 Years Later
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
At any time, people wanted to know what awaited them in the future. Some predicted the end of the world, others an incredible advance in technology. In 1900, a leading chocolate factory Hildebrands along with sweets, a series of postcards was released, which depicted people's ideas about how the world will look in 100 years. Some predictions are quite funny, while others are really reflected in our time.
1. Moving sidewalks
This postcard shows moving sidewalks. I must say that this prediction was fully justified. Such "sidewalks" - escalators are located in almost any airport or shopping center, well, except that people there do not exchange handshakes.
2. Moving home by train
3. Walking on water
Victorian people imagined that in 100 years, they would no longer need bridges to cross the lake. Everyone will be able to glide absolutely freely on the water surface using wooden shoes, special bicycles and balloons.
4. Personal airships
As history shows, airships practically did not take root. Progress developed in a different direction.
5. Submarines
6. Airships at the North Pole
7. Police installations with X-rays for surveillance
The Victorian people imagined that in the future, police officers would maintain order by looking through walls. Today, law enforcement officers use all kinds of infrared devices to see what is happening in homes. Unfortunately, these devices have not completely eradicated crime.
8. A hybrid of a ship and a locomotive
9. The city under the canopy
10. Weather control machine
11. Flights in the sky
Already 3 years after the release of these cards, the first hang gliders and paragliders took off.
12. Broadcasting the performance at a distance
This is where the Victorians hit the spot. In addition to the invention of television, nowadays there are also projectors and live broadcasts from the scene. Artists Robert Graves and Didier Madoc-Jones also thought about future events and created a series of postcards called "London of the Future", which showed how this city can change after a while.
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