How people imagined our time 120 years ago (11 photos)

There is an opinion that science fiction shapes reality. That There are writers who state the demands of society, and scientists read and perform.





In France, from 1899 to 1910, a series of pictures "In 2000". Of course, the artists could not predict all the details, but all trends are here.

The year 2000 sounds conditional, that is, as "a relatively near future."



Here is an interesting story of recent years: the fight against viruses. Do you remember that before covid, there were also bird and swine flu, monkeypox. epidemiologist makes the vaccine look like the microbe itself, but why not forgive it assumption?





3D printed clothes? Yes. Chemical food? Unfortunately this too. Digitization of materials, which is then transmitted over wires? Easily.



Video calling

In many books by the Strugatskys one can see this method of communication. BUT now zoom meetings or video calls with relatives in instant messengers - this is a common thing for almost every person.



Many household appliances have always been assigned a separate operator. Even the robotic vacuum cleaner (do you have this brilliant invention, by the way?) dragged by the maid.



But the vehicles turned out to be very similar. True at home there are fewer on wheels now (and, of course, there are no chimneys in them). well and high-speed electric trains are also familiar to everyone.



Instead of self-propelled rollers, there are electric scooters. But the basic principle individual movement (especially its trauma) artists quite predicted.



But from some predictions even goosebumps. For example, peaceful an atom that heats the premises. Radium in the fireplace today no one throws, but this is a picture of 1910, Marie Curie was just able to get pure radium. And the first industrial nuclear power plant is still almost 50 years away.



Underwater fishing is simply an amazing idea in terms of its technicality.



It remains to wait for the delivery of online orders by air. These technologies already being tested and delivery will be carried out very soon quadrocopters.



But this did not come true. The picture is called "Little Robbers of Eagles' Nests". Well, good!