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How Artists Of The Past Envisioned The 21st Century. by TheSourcerer: 7:59pm On Jun 28, 2022

Early futurist artists filled their skies with flying devices of varying size and purpose. Writer and illustrator Albert Robida envisioned a time of personal flying machines used for jaunts to the opera, airships for public transport, and even luxurious floating casinos.

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Re: How Artists Of The Past Envisioned The 21st Century. by TheSourcerer: 8:00pm On Jun 28, 2022

Taking a romantic evening ride in a personal flying fish vehicle over Paris. A police station is on hand to deal with double parking and jaywalkers. “Paris la Nuit.” Albert Robida.

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Re: How Artists Of The Past Envisioned The 21st Century. by TheSourcerer: 8:01pm On Jun 28, 2022

While Poe imagined hot air balloons travelling to the moon, others predicted more mundane uses such as floating street lights from the year 2000. “Guesses at Futurity” Fred Jane, Pall Mall magazine, 1894

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Re: How Artists Of The Past Envisioned The 21st Century. by TheSourcerer: 8:03pm On Jun 28, 2022

Lord how this world improves as we grow older,” “The March of Intellect.” William Heath, 1828.

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Re: How Artists Of The Past Envisioned The 21st Century. by TheSourcerer: 8:04pm On Jun 28, 2022

Advance Sentinel in a Helicopter.” Jean Marc Côté, 1899

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Re: How Artists Of The Past Envisioned The 21st Century. by TheSourcerer: 8:05pm On Jun 28, 2022

“The Rural Postman.” Jean Marc Côté, 1899.

We really have a thing for flight.

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Re: How Artists Of The Past Envisioned The 21st Century. by Blake755: 8:33pm On Jun 28, 2022

Hey bro how are you doing

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Re: How Artists Of The Past Envisioned The 21st Century. by TheSourcerer: 9:45pm On Jun 28, 2022

Street 'baloon' lights

Enthusiasm about this emerging world of flight was not solely reserved to professional artists. Between 1899 and 1921, Charles Dellschau, a retired butcher who claimed to be a member of a secret society called the Sonora Aero Club, filled 13 notebooks with 2,500 drawings, paintings, and collages of ideas for air travel and airships now not just for traveling but giving us night light .

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Re: How Artists Of The Past Envisioned The 21st Century. by TheSourcerer: 9:45pm On Jun 28, 2022

New inventions showed a view of the world that had never been seen before, as depicted by Thomas Baldwin – a drawing of one of the first aerial views of Earth in his “Airopedia” published in 1785

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Re: How Artists Of The Past Envisioned The 21st Century. by TheSourcerer: 9:46pm On Jun 28, 2022

Blake755:
Hey bro how are you doing

wonderful thank you .and how are you this evening?

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Re: How Artists Of The Past Envisioned The 21st Century. by TheSourcerer: 9:47pm On Jun 28, 2022

We’ll All Be Happy Then shows a mishmash of devices designed to enhance our domestic life: stored sunlight overhead, fresh air pumped in from the Alps, opera delivered to your speaker, 24-hour news with “events as they transpire, accurately recorded.” It also has one of the earliest examples of a robot servant: the gentleman of the future would never have to leave the comfort of his motor-powered armchair

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Re: How Artists Of The Past Envisioned The 21st Century. by TheSourcerer: 9:47pm On Jun 28, 2022

Mail delivered by rockets. Artist: Frank Tinsley. 1957.
Okay ......
Not too far fetched we have phones

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Re: How Artists Of The Past Envisioned The 21st Century. by TheSourcerer: 9:48pm On Jun 28, 2022

Centrifugal force rejuvenation or a reverse-aging process.1935.
Lol these people thought we had reverse aging machine

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Re: How Artists Of The Past Envisioned The 21st Century. by TheSourcerer: 9:49pm On Jun 28, 2022

Machines taking over our jobs 1922

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Re: How Artists Of The Past Envisioned The 21st Century. by TheSourcerer: 9:51pm On Jun 28, 2022

An American mother and daughter arrive home from shopping in a futuristic spaceship. Circa 1950

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Re: How Artists Of The Past Envisioned The 21st Century. by TheSourcerer: 9:53pm On Jun 28, 2022

illustration from the late 1950s of a self-driving car

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Re: How Artists Of The Past Envisioned The 21st Century. by TheSourcerer: 9:55pm On Jun 28, 2022

An Underwater home. Artwork: Charles Schridde. Circa 1961–63.
Still yet nobody on the phone ..... Smh

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Re: How Artists Of The Past Envisioned The 21st Century. by TheSourcerer: 9:56pm On Jun 28, 2022

Seattle as imagined in 2014 — in the year 1914

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Re: How Artists Of The Past Envisioned The 21st Century. by TheSourcerer: 9:57pm On Jun 28, 2022

An idea from the early 1950s for a television newspaper.

Yes! Close to the internet as can be.
This is literally Nairaland on your computer

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Re: How Artists Of The Past Envisioned The 21st Century. by NoQualmz: 10:00pm On Jun 28, 2022

TheSourcerer:
Early futurist artists filled their skies with flying devices of varying size and purpose. Writer and illustrator Albert Robida envisioned a time of personal flying machines used for jaunts to the opera, airships for public transport, and even luxurious floating casinos.

My life with the Jetsons grin

I lived with them
I flew with them
Went to work in their spaceships
I dreamt,I dreamt
Dreams never came to reality.
Here I am cheesy

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Re: How Artists Of The Past Envisioned The 21st Century. by Vilgax: 10:22pm On Jun 28, 2022

not one dystopian prediction?
lol these guys were so optimistic.

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Re: How Artists Of The Past Envisioned The 21st Century. by TheWolfen(m): 5:04am On Jun 29, 2022

Came too far in just a little space of time.
Extraordinary humans
The only thing that can destroy humanity are humans. Not even demons stand the chance

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Re: How Artists Of The Past Envisioned The 21st Century. by ajekpaks(m): 5:38am On Jun 29, 2022

cooo

Re: How Artists Of The Past Envisioned The 21st Century. by Authoreety: 7:19am On Jun 29, 2022

Really... Souce

Re: How Artists Of The Past Envisioned The 21st Century. by SanctifiedSista(f): 7:31am On Jun 29, 2022

TheSourcerer:
Early futurist artists filled their skies with flying devices of varying size and purpose. Writer and illustrator Albert Robida envisioned a time of personal flying machines used for jaunts to the opera, airships for public transport, and even luxurious floating casinos.

They shld keep envisioning....only GOD can bring it to pass if it's on his blueprint

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Re: How Artists Of The Past Envisioned The 21st Century. by TheSourcerer: 8:33am On Jun 29, 2022

SanctifiedSista:

They shld keep envisioning....only GOD can bring it to pass if it's on his blueprint

Lucifer is Lord

Re: How Artists Of The Past Envisioned The 21st Century. by TheSourcerer: 8:35am On Jun 29, 2022

Vilgax:
not one dystopian prediction?

lol these guys were so optimistic.

true that . I think we used to be that optimistic too

Re: How Artists Of The Past Envisioned The 21st Century. by TheSourcerer: 8:36am On Jun 29, 2022

Authoreety:
Really... Souce

Reeeeeealy

Re: How Artists Of The Past Envisioned The 21st Century. by TheSourcerer: 8:38am On Jun 29, 2022

TheWolfen:
Came too far in just a little space of time.
Extraordinary humans
The only thing that can destroy humanity are humans. Not even demons stand the chance

in the next few hundred yes humans would write our signature amongst the stars ,conquered the milky way , imagine a civilization we claim so advanced (aliens ) yet we only see grainy images of UFOs on YouTube , hence I believe Aliens cannot be real , We are the Aliens .

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Re: How Artists Of The Past Envisioned The 21st Century. by Nobody: 8:49am On Jun 29, 2022

it seems you once lived on earth in the 18s

Re: How Artists Of The Past Envisioned The 21st Century. by deanoffaculty: 9:30am On Jun 29, 2022

TheSourcerer:
Centrifugal force rejuvenation or a reverse-aging process.1935.
Lol these people thought we had reverse aging machine

Re: How Artists Of The Past Envisioned The 21st Century. by TheSourcerer: 9:44am On Jun 29, 2022

deanoffaculty:

I strongly recommend this for Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu..... seriously.

I'm not into these talks brother

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