"En L'An 2000 - Daily Life Made Better" Topic
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Tango01  | 14 Oct 2023 4:46 p.m. PST |
"En L'An 2000 (English: In the Year 2000) were a series of cigarette cards produced in France at the turn of 1900. The initial series was released between 1899 and 1901, in conjunction with the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle, when excitement about the advancements of the coming century were accelerating. A second series was produced in 1910.
In this third collection, we look at how daily life was predicted to improve in the year 2000… Hearths heated by radium, education by osmosis, new methods of agriculture, advances in science, chemical dinners, and correspondence via cinema-phono-telegraphique… Or what we, in more banal times, call "the Internet."…"
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Armand
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| khanscom | 14 Oct 2023 7:11 p.m. PST |
Ah, yes… I remember those Flash Gordon serials with rocket engines fueled by the uranium stokers shoveling heaps of uranium like coal… |
| Tango01 | 15 Oct 2023 3:30 p.m. PST |
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 etotheipi  | 21 Oct 2023 12:39 p.m. PST |
I've said it before, and I'll say it again … My favourite future is the retro future. |
| Tango01 | 21 Oct 2023 3:40 p.m. PST |
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| billclo | 22 Oct 2023 3:16 a.m. PST |
Where are our hovercars? We were promised hovercars! :) |
| Tango01 | 22 Oct 2023 3:19 p.m. PST |
So many promises… (smile) Armand |
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gives you the gift of being OK with that. 
