Addition date
Jan 19, 2024 5:34 PM
Column
Raphael ThysLAN
EN
At the turn of the twentieth century a team of illustrators created their futuristic vision of the birth of the twenty-first century.
- Words: Rachel Halliburton
Some artistic predictions of the future can seem uncannily prescient, others are doomed to end up looking dated. Yet there can be a certain charm even to those that miss the mark, and it would take a 3-D printed heart of stone not to be beguiled by these French illustrations, which predicted the year 2000 in 1900.
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