It's easy to be a general after a battle, so these photos that show how people around 1900 imagined life in the year 2000 will have you laughing. But after all, they would probably laugh at your hundred-year predictions in a hundred years. The paintings depicting the future are the work of the French painter Jean-Marc Côté, and they adorned postcards and cigarette and cigar boxes.
You are interested in how people are in 1900 imagined life in the year 2000? The paintings of the painter offer us a good insight by Jean-Marc Côté from the series "France in 2000", which he painted between 1899 and 1910.
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His first pictures, outlining the distant future, were printed for the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900 and glued them to cigarette and cigar boxes, and later they were also used for postcards. He himself bet on mechanical systems, air traffic and life under water. He doesn't care about smartphones and computers. Check to see if he hit the mark with any of his visions.
