How at the beginning of the 19th century they provided themselves with life in 2000 (21 photos)
What is 100 years? Well, in essence, this is one human life, there is the expression “human century”. But everyone understands perfectly well that this concept is very flexible. God grant that I live to be 80 years old, let alone a hundred. But one way or another, a century is a grain of sand from the point of view of history. But how important and monumental it is for us - little ants on a tiny blue ball in space. We present to your attention a cute series of postcards called "France in 2000". It was created back in the 1890-1900s. The artists in them tried to imagine life in 100 years. Let's see what they imagined. Spoiler: they guessed almost nothing.
The pictures were originally commissioned by Armand Gervais (a French toy manufacturer in Lyon) for the 1900 World's Fair in Paris. The first fifty paper cards were made by artist Jean-Marc Côté and were intended to be inserted into cigarette packs and then distributed as postcards.
At school 
Books are literally pumped into children's heads.
Video calling 
Airship 
The firefighters have arrived! 
Underwater cafe 
Underwater whale carrier 
Fantasies about flying cars accessible to everyone already existed at the end of the 19th century. 
Where there are flying cars, there are traffic police officers floating in the air 
Fully automated construction 
The quirky Paris-Beijing train 
Scary mechanized barbershops 
Scout motorcyclists 
Probably the most noisy scouts in history.
Underwater fish racing 
Mail 
Air taxi parking 
River walks 
Latest technologies in agriculture 
Robot cleaner 
Study of microbes 
Automated orchestra controlled by one person 
Air tennis 
