A chocolate factory shows a glimpse of the 2000s to its customers from the year 1900: a "Victorian" and somewhat bizarre future
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Year 1900 cutaway. A watershed between the past and the future, the transition from one era to another. Transport, Energy, Work, Customs and entertainment. It would have changed everything. A generation of men with a great hunger for renewal would have made history in a few years, but it was still not enough: the gaze, dreamy and intrepid, went even further.
In 1900, the German chocolate company Hildebrands produced a whole series of postcards imagining the wonders of life in the 2000s.
The "renderings", we can say, were at least optimistic and a little naive. Friends of the 900th century imagined people dressed in Victorian fashion (evidently considered timeless) still in the 2000s. People who enjoyed lives of unlimited leisure and comfort, enabled by a century of technological progress.
Le planned innovations they were of all sorts. Some, I must say, quite accurate (live broadcasts of theater performances). Others were absurd (cities covered with weatherproof glass roofs). There were also some predictions with depressing implications if seen from the current perspective (summer holidays at the North Pole).
Here are some of these postcards that showed "in advance" the wonders of the 2000s to the curious readers of the 1900s.
Moving walkways
Neighborhoods on rails
The beauty of the live
Climate control
By train everywhere
Tourist submarines
Cities protected from the elements
Personal airships
Tourism in the North Pole
X-ray surveillance
Fun on the water
Gianluca Riccio, creative director of Melancia adv, copywriter and journalist. He is part of the Italian Institute for the Future, World Future Society and H+. Since 2006 he has directed Futuroprossimo.it, the Italian Futurology resource.
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