A Vision of the Future from 1899 \ufffd (CBS \ufffd 2012)<\/a>
\n\ufffdWhat will the future look like?\ufffd That’s what French artists tried to depict in a series of futuristic postcards presented at the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris. Some of their ideas were prescient: for example, image 41, an RV, envisioned many decades before the term Recreational Vehicle was coined. Some were charmingly fantastic. What they primarily missed were the changes based on technological advances built on Edison’s system for electricity distribution patented in 1880.<\/p>\n
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If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn’t be called research, would it?\u00a0<\/i>\ufffd Albert Einstein<\/p>\n
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