These 19th Century Postcards Predicted Our Future 157
kkleiner writes "Starting in 1899, a commercial artist named Jean-Marc Côté and other artists were hired to create a series of picture cards to depict how life in France would look in a century's time. Sadly, they were never actually distributed. However, the only known set of cards to exist was discovered by Isaac Asimov, who wrote a book in 1986 called 'Futuredays' in which he presented the illustrations with commentary. What's amazing about this collection is how close their predictions were in a lot of cases, and how others are close at hand."
cue the french bashing in 1, 2, 3 (Score:4, Funny)
-I'm just sayin'
Re:cue the french bashing in 1, 2, 3 (Score:5, Funny)
Flying postal carrier (Score:5, Funny)
I have been trying to get my local postal carrier to deliver my mail to my balcony via Ultra Light, but she keeps pointing out that that would expensive, dangerous and I only live on the 2nd floor. Some people just can't see the future.
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Re:They missed the 3 most important inventions (Score:2, Funny)
Haven't you seen the three sea shells in one of those postcards?
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You want to discuss amazing predictions? These postcards from 1899 predicted Nostradamus would monopolize the History Channel!
He also predicted impossibly-thin french women doing chores for you. But you're still in mom's basement, your room is a mess, and your girlfriend, while impossibly thin, is only that way because you haven't patched the hole in her yet...
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Somebody's bitchy. Must be that time of the month.
What - when the Comcast bill arrives?