What people in 1900 thought life would be like in the technological paradise of 2000

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Personal flying machines.

Image: Hildebrands/Public Domain

In 1900, German chocolate company Hildebrands produced a series of postcards imagining the wonders of life in the year 2000.

The optimistic renderings envisioned people in Victorian fashions enjoying lives of boundless leisure and comfort enabled by a century of technological advancement

The predicted innovations range from accurate (live broadcasts of plays) to absurd (cities covered by weather-proof glass roofs) to depressingly plausible in the near future (summer holidays at the North Pole).

Movable sidewalks.

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What people in 1900 thought life would be like in the technological paradise of 2000 What people in 1900 thought life would be like in the technological paradise of 2000 Reviewed by mimisabreena on Saturday, November 04, 2017 Rating: 5

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