These postcards, handed out by a German chocolate company at the turn of the century, attempted to predict what life might have been like in the year 2000 based on the developing technology of those days. I think my favorite is either the city with a ceiling or the weather machine… But wouldn’t they have been mutually exclusive?
X-Ray Surveillance Machine
Weather Machine
Aqua Train
Walking on Water
Broadcasting Sound & Images
Underwater Boat / Submarine
Escalator / Moving Walkway
Movable City Blocks
Flying Contraptions
City w/ Ceiling
Hot Air Family Zeppelin, pre-Hindenburg
Arctic Vacation Fly-By
Via The Card Mine
November 4th in 1900, 2000, Air Travel, Contraption, Future, Interesting, Machine, Prediction, Weather Machine, Zeppelin | | 106 comments 