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2000 as Seen in 1910 (23 pics)
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#12Well, not "so wrong". For example pic 10. Today we call it skype with webcamera. And it doesn't even need a footpedal. :)
They even got the helicopter and humvee right (sort of).
The people in 1900s have over-estimated the usage of robotic arms. We don't have that kind of arms working on human yet, but we do have them on automotive manufacturing.
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#13They weren't so wrong... sure their form factors were way off but they had all the ideas down...
1. Electronic Books 2. High speed aerodynamic trains 3. Computer aided manufacturing 4. Motorized personal transport 6&7. Ok no one is letting a robot cut their hair or do makeup, but we're using robots for surgery 9. Aerodynamic motorcycles 10. Webcams 11. Where's my flying car! 12. Tanks 13. Electronic news etc. etc.
If you look at the concept alone, for 100 years ago they weren't THAT far off. Personalized flight on the whole was really the only big miss.
Edit: I understand the horse one now. Back then horses were used for everything... but by 2000 they predicted everything would be machines, so seeing a horse would be a curiosity, not the daily norm. You would take your kids to see a horse, petting zoo anyone? Pretty prescient to me.
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#14It is 2011 and I still don't have a flying car. What a shame!
As somone who lives in Boston, I think it’s just as well that our drivers are limited to two dimensions.
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#15Hm, for some of them I couldn't even see which part is supposed to be so two-thousandy, e.g. the fifth from the top. (Edit: Got it from paleofuture - it's the "phonographic message")
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#16I love that the one with the room being lit by what appears to be an electric light in the fireplace is captioned "Heating With Radium"
This was obviously in that period after radium was popularised and before all those girls' teeth fell out.
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#17What's interesting is that they weren't really that far off with a lot of their predictions. They just couldn't get past their current level of technology, their imagination was restricted by what they were familiar with.
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#18The one thing they totally failed to predict was the trend toward much more casual clothing. Partially due to technology becoming available to all the classes but even upper class people would find this level of dress over the top for current times. How long before we end up in the stereotypical white space jump suit?
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#19The one thing they totally failed to predict was the trend toward much more casual clothing. Partially due to technology becoming available to all the classes but even upper class people would find this level of dress over the top for current times. How long before we end up in the stereotypical white space jump suit?
Better still, we could walk around with our Facebook wall (and little text ads) displayed on our backs!
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#20Anyone know of some modern equivalents? What do we think the year 2100 is going to look like, for instance?