In 1900, several french artists drew what they thought life would be like in 2000...
And some are really spot on...
Back in 1900, a group of delightfully optimistic French artists sat down with wine, baguettes, and far too much imagination to attempt to predict the year 2000. And oh boy—if only! Instead of winged postmen and robotic barbers, we got burnout, WiFi anxiety, and billionaires playing real-life "Escape Earth…"
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I see air forces, tanks/IFVs, RVs, the automated orchestra for a play isnt far off sound systems, we definitely have electric scrubbers in many descriptions.
Odd ideas about how available flight would be, but the rest of the use cases, they got right they just didn’t know how it would look…
Yep, some are close to the truth, some show us they were smoking a lot of pot back in 1900…
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Well, they got the "at school" picture right. Maybe we didn't get psyoped with headphones connected to a book grinder but the most effective tool for that wasn't even dreamt of - by these artists at least. I'm referring to the television.
This is a good reminder of how far technology has progressed in so short a time. In 1900 people for the most part were moving at the speed of a horse, sometimes at that of a steam locomotive. Circa 1920, the automobile came on the scene. But for 6000 years, mankind was stuck in a very limited, primitive state of a non-technological world until the mid 19th century when the British industrial revolution began with the refining of the steam engine. In the space of only about 250 years, mankind advanced from such the same underdeveloped lifestyle to landing space probes on other planets. (I used to say landing a man on the moon but I don't believe that actually happened)
Question: What changed and why did it happen so relatively quickly? Why didn't mankind progress technologically throughout the entire 6000 years of his existence as logic would suggest? (I'm from the young-earth camp) What happened in the mid 19th century to spawn the 250 year leap in technology that allows me to type this comment which anyone with a computer- and now even a cell phone - can read from anywhere in the world?
This can be seen by looking at the last 40 years alone. In 1985, computers were primitive and just coming into practical use. The first personal computer came out just two years prior in 1983, the Apple "Lisa" but was so expensive most people couldn't afford it. Now, everyone in the world carries a computer in their pockets that is more powerful than the fastest computer technology offered back then... times 100,000.
What caused this leap in technology? My best hypothesis is that God withheld Satan from divulging modern technology until the last couple hundred years of this age, the age of Grace. And boy did man capitulate! Look at CERN. I believe that satanic powers gave the technology for CERN to the scientists that built it and its purpose was to open a portal so that these malevolent forces could enter our space/time reality.
I don't usually recommend Hollywood movies but they can sometimes be good roadmaps by which we can predict the future. The movie "Contact" told the story of CERN, I believe. Non random radio signals were detected by radio telescopes which ultimately gave the plans for a complex machine which the ETs could utilize to make contact (enter this dimension) with mankind. Eerily similar to CERN if you ask me.