“In the year 2000”: Whale-bus. French paper notecard by Jean-Marc Côté.
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Illustrations from France in 1920 show us the robot-filled year 2000. Are the lampshades suctioning the students’ heads evidence of a proto-Internet? A networked brain?
(via an-itinerant-poet)
“This card shows parents in France speaking to their son in an unspecified Asian country via picturephone. They assure their son that they’ll send him Lombart chocolates by way of aircraft soon.” (via paleofuture)
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Source: bashford
“The only thing I can say now about the future is that it will be absolutely fantastic.” Arthur C. Clarke lays out his predictions for the year 2000, which include a vision of the internet.
Source: laphamsquarterly
