Artist's drawings from 1899 depicts France in the year 2000

Following the principle that predictions of the future are projections of the present, all the robots, regardless of purpose, would be dogs.

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By the year 2000, advances in medical science had almost eliminated the affliction of hysteria.

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These are so fun!

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i said it above, but verne’s 20,000 leagues was super popular ( and had a couple of sequels now long forgotten about )

re wikipedia

The book was widely acclaimed on its release and remains so; it is regarded as one of the premier adventure novels and one of Verne’s greatest works

and it had pictures like this:




so the idea of undersea as “the future” was in the air, so to speak

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water.

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I think the frotteurs electriques may have helped with that!

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And somehow we decided to make our future all about Mars colonies instead.

Mars landscape from Perserverance

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I assumed that’s what you meant in your earlier post.

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trying to make underwater cities… maybe it was just too much pressure.

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I sea what you did there.

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