What people in 1900 thought 2000 would look like

[Paul]

ICYMI - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/w...

[Pete]

Seems like these were depicted to elicit laughs rather than serious comment. Thanks for showing.

[Nathan]

There's a steampunk story in there somewhere.

[Cheryl]

Most (of the non-underwater) don't seem terribly labor-saving or anything... just machines for the sake of novelty.

The underwater ones are just bizarre. I wonder if it was a 'the next frontier' mentality....

[Paul]

My favorite is the headphones replacing printed books - they got it about a quarter right.

[Erin *Proud Book Hoarder*]

Sigh, I just got sucked through the rabbit hole. Clicked on that link then said others in sidebar, read them then saw more, now spent the last 40 minutes reading news articles

[Pete]

Erin (Paperback stash) *is juggle-reading* wrote: "Sigh, I just got sucked through the rabbit hole. Clicked on that link then said others in sidebar, read them then saw more, now spent the last 40 minutes reading news articles"

uTube by another name...

[Aaron]

Erin (Paperback stash) *is juggle-reading* wrote: "Sigh, I just got sucked through the rabbit hole. Clicked on that link then said others in sidebar, read them then saw more, now spent the last 40 minutes reading news articles"

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php...