What En L'An 2000 (In the Year 2000) got right

En L'An 2000

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En L'An 2000 (In the Year 2000, also loosely translated as France in the 21st Century) is a French image series depicting scientific advances imagined as achieved by the year 2000. At least 87 were produced, by artists including Jean-Marc Côté. They were printed in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1910, first on paper as cigar box inserts, and later as picture postcards, but never distributed. The only known set of the postcards was acquired by writer Isaac Asimov, who featured them in his nonfiction work Futuredays: A Nineteenth Century Vision of the Year 2000 (Henry Holt and Company, 1986).

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A drawing from 1930, depicting the future of communication pic.twitter.com/gWUqOXycbD

— Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) July 7, 2018

More: Looks like the above image is from 1930

cc @jrpeet @kareanderson How to search for image sources: https://t.co/Jc7kcnxQtd This one looks lost with sources just being other sources that grabbed the image. Reddit discussion 3 years ago: https://t.co/8MXEbZ5enr article: https://t.co/JZO0wTFEwI me: https://t.co/yz3Z77EGGA

— Linda Sherman Gordon (@LindaSherman) July 9, 2018

The concepts aren't that far off from today's reality. Delivering mail and putting out fires was predicted to be done in mid-air. They even have electric roller skates and rolling houses. (via @mymodernmet) https://t.co/ZMMSJSzvBP

— Atlas Obscura (@atlasobscura) July 16, 2018