France in the year 2000, as envisaged in 1899. Some tech is wonderfully prescient: we've versions of Zoom, a vacuum cleaner, drone deliveries. Other visions less so, particularly those anticipating a life beneath the waves, of underwater croquet + whale buses... https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/a-19th-century-vision-of-the-year-2000/
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The Public Domain Review (publicdomainrev@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 00:31:16 JST The Public Domain Review
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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 (lazarou@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 01:15:24 JST Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈
@publicdomainrev "We were promised Flying Cars and Whale Buses!"
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Amsterdam Eric (amsterdameric@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 04:30:44 JST Amsterdam Eric
@publicdomainrev Beautiful stuff! (But I hope that one guy built a machine to have video conferences and didn't build a machine to watch AI porn.)
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Robert William Vesterman (rwv37@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 02:28:01 JST Robert William Vesterman
@publicdomainrev Not with THAT attitude.
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