International Month of Futures Past, Part 2
The May Random Thread continues to celebrate past predictions for the future by being as random as you please.
In the futures imagined in the 1880s, men traveled to the moon wearing Victorian clothes; the people of our era were portrayed as commuting to and fro in flying machines, watching television, and listening to iPods. But in this remarkable, hitherto unpublished illustration for Jules Verne’s Robur-le-conquérant, we can see that he anticipated something even more important…Muses.
P.S. We apologize for the late arrival of Part 2. Delivery by Vernian helicopter is excruciatingly slow.
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Date: May 18, 2009
Categories: At the Top of the Blog, Random craziness