One of the most difficult things seems to be forecast fashion but probably the artist didn't even attempt to envision future clothing, except for technical ones. That would distract from the main point. There is even a gown in the underwater game of croquet.
They envisioned robotic tailors and even today we are far away from that it's last one this slide https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/a-19th-century-vis...
It can probably be done already, but no one bothers with bespoke clothing any more.
People desired flat roads before cars. There was a huge effort in XIX century to develop better roads for the horse-drawn buggies and stagecoaches.
I believe the better road movement was started by cyclists.
The "movement" was of course a continuous effort, hard to say when it started. In England, a major improvement effort was done around 1810-1830 by a rich nobleman, who was irritated by having to use very bad country roads to go to his local nobility political meetings (can't recall his name at the moment), and he was going there by horse. He had a scientific mind and devoted last decades of his life to studying road construction techniques and writing up the results. Since he had money and political clout, his ideas were adopted, and later spread across Great Britain, leading it to having by far the best roads in the world at the time.
Most of our planet is underwater and barely explored. And most of the region isn't really claimed. By countries or individuals in those countries. The long-term benefits of exploration are often in the tools to solve the problems with the exploring. Tang and Velcro and microwave ovens are minor examples - I bet you can think of better things the space program gave us! Overall, it's s greater good for society and it s…
NASA did not invent velcro. A Swiss guy did in the 1940/1950s.
A Swiss guy invented it while exploring, err hunting
It's also interesting to see what they could not envision. For example, they obviously could not imagine that women could wear anything other than a dress.
It's completely understandable, fashion didn't begin to change rapidly until the 1920s.
One of the interesting things about these photos is that, aside from all the under-water ones, many of the contraptions exist. We just call them Roomba, Kubota tractor, Audible, Philips All-In-One Trimmer, etc. One consistent facet is that many of our modern technologies are a lot more complex on the inside, but simpler in appearance. There really is one guy pushing buttons to harvest thousands of acres. There's a co…
I didn't realize that the underwater thing was so important back then. We are all thinking about flying cars, and these drawings don't disappoint, but there is as much happening underwater as it is happening in the sky. Now, we are still fascinated with flying, machines, etc... but going underwater is boring by comparison. We have submarines, mostly for the military, a bit of scientific exploration, etc... but beside…
Probably more the opposite, space travel would seem too outlandish to consider.
In the midst of rapid technological progress, encompassing breakthroughs in AI, chips/semiconductors, alongside the unsettling surge in global geopolitical tensions and the transformative impact of certain social media, particularly affecting Gen Z & Alpha, I find myself constantly pondering the trajectory of our future. The relentless pace of change prompts me to question what life may entail in the next 10, 40 year…
> the notion of individuals donning AR/VR headsets while walking down the streets seemed far-fetched.
afaik it's mostly social media clout chasers shenanigans, you can't use the vision pro like that because the windows are fixed
> regrowing limbs I can see that, in limited capacities, in less than 10 years for animals, and 20 for humans. Regrowing bones from genetic/growth defects for children at least, maybe minor bone reconstruction too.
It is closer than that. Arguable, we are regrowing lost bits and pieces already (skin graft, moving blood vessels around). >> World’s 1st drug to regrow teeth enters clinical trials https://globalnews.ca/news/9984605/tooth-regrowth-drug/
This is exiting, really. Not everything about the world is great right now, but biology and medecine are fields that could really explode in the near future.
It is closer than that. Arguable, we are regrowing lost bits and pieces already (skin graft, moving blood vessels around). >> World’s 1st drug to regrow teeth enters clinical trials https://globalnews.ca/news/9984605/tooth-regrowth-drug/
We should be regrowing cartilage.
Like current this clinical study [1]?
Or this pre-clinical [2].
The technology seems to exist (and there are people running marathons that were in need of a joint replacement before), only that the adoption is still in progress