How will everyday life look in 2000?

[Judge_Deadd]

Here's a nice collection of images from the year 1910, which show how life will look in 2000. Personally, I can't wait to use this cinema-photo-telegraph!

http://expositions.bnf.fr/utopie/feuill/index.htm

 

[thomas.berubeg]

OOH, i can't wait

 

[Love]

Those flying Fire soldiers were cool

 

[TheBladeRoden]

Rube Goldberg was a visionary!

 

[FriendlyFire]

1984 :d

 

[Valka D'Ur]

How about those robotic barbers/hairdressers?

 

[Alpha Killer II]

Lol, and we did BETTER Than MOST of those!!!...if only we have robotic barbers....
And I thought people never even heard of Robots back then

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

Good find, and not too far off the mark with some of those ideas. Pity we don't have those personal flying, erm, carriages, but I would never have trusted that barber shop contraption, though.

 

[RubricousMidget]

Me neither. What's the point of having a machine shave you and cut your hair - with the barber standing right behind you controlling it?

I really like how those students are sitting with zeerust helmets, while the professor is feeding books into a meat grinder .

 

[Cuivienen]

Only the book-feeder is really off the mark. The hairdresser device, well, we could do it, but it would be rather pointless. The "war mobiles" look like miniature tanks, the "cinematic conversations" are like videophones (which haven't advanced very far mostly because we realized they were impractical), roller skates appeared almost exactly as envisioned (though they never replaced walking), etc.

 

[Swedishguy]

My favourite.

 

[Love]

Well, computers...

 

[Alpha Killer II]

yea, Long live Computers!!1

 

[Mirc]

I have actually a book written around 1920 where they give various predictions.

Apparently, we already colonized Mars, frozen and woken up thousands of people, got rid of food and started using only pills instead, replaced all cars with flying vechicles, and we have computers that can store up to 200 books!!

 

[Alpha Killer II]

While lookin at the pic wit the school, I noticed this...

 

[IronMan2055]

i'd have to imagine information entering your ears all day would be boring.

 

[sirtommygunn]

it would be 5 seconds and then your done. of course it really depends on how fast that kid can get those books through the meat grinder

 

[Kan' Sharuminar]

I think they're supposed to be just headphones, so it's not learning Matrix-style, but similar to a modern audio learning device.

That said, it seems to be wired up to the book crushing machine - does it only give information when a book is processed through it? And if it is as advanced as that, why on earth does it need a child to keep it going, and not some steam-powered device? You've already got flying cars in another picture, surely an automated gear turner isn't that tough

 

[Truronian]

The winged policeman is cool.