In the year 2000, as told by France (1910)

Ever wondered how your grandparents (or great grandparents) used to look at the future? The National Library of France has recently set up an exhibit of prints dating back to 1910, all of which portray the time’s predictions for the year 2000. As you guys might guessed, there’s plenty of wild-yet-accurate visions for our time.

Some of the favorite clips we spy include a depiction of what the inside of a classroom would look today – headsets hooking students up to what appears to be an early computer (which is crank-operated, by the way). Notice how the teacher is feeding books into the computer, which we assume would be fed, in turn, as information to the students via headsets? We find it interesting to note that The Matrix hit theaters just a year before this intended prediction.

Other prints that we point out includes the time’s predictions for air rescue (today’s coast guard), a France-to-China electric train, and automobile warfare. We’ve posted some of the prints here for viewing – guys who wish to see the Library’s full exhibit are invited to click on the read link.

Ever wondered how your grandparents (or great grandparents) used to look at the future? The National Library of France has recently set up an exhibit of prints dating back to 1910, all of which portray the time’s predictions for the year 2000. As you guys might guessed, there’s plenty of wild-yet-accurate visions for our time.

Some of the favorite clips we spy include a depiction of what the inside of a classroom would look today – headsets hooking students up to what appears to be an early computer (which is crank-operated, by the way). Notice how the teacher is feeding books into the computer, which we assume would be fed, in turn, as information to the students via headsets? We find it interesting to note that The Matrix hit theaters just a year before this intended prediction.

Other prints that we point out includes the time’s predictions for air rescue (today’s coast guard), a France-to-China electric train, and automobile warfare. We’ve posted some of the prints here for viewing – guys who wish to see the Library’s full exhibit are invited to click on the read link.