I thought I'd make this a regular thing, maybe on a weekly or bi-weekly basis, where I'd show pictures from the past of what the last century thought we'd be like now. It really is interesting to see what they envisioned us being like. It's sometimes even depressing when they imagine us to be more advanced then we actually are.
In the 21st century, dragons will put out our fires and save our towns. Well, firemen dressed as dragons at least. Is this their sick idea of sexual future role playing? I guess we would've been so advanced, that we would have gotten rid of the petty, useless ladders in the world, and worked on sprouting wings. Apparently the firemen are also immune to the smoke fuming from the blaze and not to mention the unadvanced train's smoke below them. They definitely don't need masks. Not to mention, their clothes are awfully tight. Is this suggesting that maybe firemen of the future are a little feminine? They have absolutely no room to breath. Or maybe they don't want to breathe.
Last week you saw a design very similar to this with the people walking on water. This happens to be the same artist, only in this future depiction he combined a boat and a train together to form one massive, mighty train-boat! I'm guessing he didn't like his prediction very much because his train-boat is on fire. I don't know how they thought this would work. Would the tracks be all around the ocean floor, or would it just be on the shore so that trains could latch onto it when they need to go back on land? If it was just on the shore, wouldn't they have a hard time aligning the train-boat to the tracks considering there's a gigantic storm brewing with monstrous waves all around? But, hey, at least they tried. Too bad airplanes took over this dream. I'd love to sail around on one of these bad boys, and hopefully not catch fire.
A little over 50 years ago, a group of people made the prediction that this is what personal computers would look like in the year 2004. First of all, what the hell!? This looks like the inside of a submarine boat. Is there really a steering wheel there? Maybe they confused the term "hard-drive" for actually driving hard. And guess who the group of people who predicted this were. Scientists! Shows how much our scientists know: absolutely nothing. The funny thing is that in the caption for this picture it says, "the computer will be easy to use". Like hell! Would we really find this easy to use when it would probably take hours of pressing buttons and turning dials just to get it booted? Then you have to sit down in that big, clunky chair with the humongous type writer and fat television looming over your head. One thing they forgot to add was, HELLO, a computer monitor. I really hope they don't expect that chunky TV to be our monitor. Last thing we need in this world is a crooked neck. Oh dear scientists, keep trying. I bet even Bill Nye the science guy could've done a better job than you.
-Jade
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