In 1900, German chocolate company Hildebrands produced a series of postcards imagining the wonders of life in the year 2000. The optimistic renderings envisioned people in Victorian fashions enjoying lives of boundless leisure and comfort enabled by a century of technological advancement. The predicted innovations range from accurate (live broadcasts of plays) to absurd (cities covered by weather-proof glass roofs) to depressingly plausible in the near future (summer holidays at the North Pole).
Image: Movable sidewalks. IMAGE: HILDEBRANDS/PUBLIC DOMAIN
