Comments on: Antique Cards

Antique Cards

crunchland — Wed, 25 Jun 2003 12:34:20 -0800

Victorian Visions of the Year 2000.

By: Ufez Jones

Ufez Jones — Wed, 25 Jun 2003 12:54:30 -0800

Fascinating link. Thanks, crunchy.

By: eilatan

eilatan — Wed, 25 Jun 2003 12:56:10 -0800

This is really spiffy. I love stuff like this. What I want to know is this: will my collection of Garbage Pail Kids be as interesting to people 100 years hence as these are?

By: George_Spiggott

George_Spiggott — Wed, 25 Jun 2003 12:56:11 -0800

All of the balloons reflect a serious underestimation of the amount of volume required to lift a given mass. The televised entertainment thing is great and misses the mark only in the finer details. I'm reminded of the fact that Alexander Graham Bell did not believe at first that telephones would be used for person-to-person conversations. He expected them to perform the function that radio ended up fulfilling, a way to receive news and entertainment.

By: crookdimwit

crookdimwit — Wed, 25 Jun 2003 12:58:45 -0800

Dammit, where IS my personal aircraft?

By: mdn

mdn — Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:02:00 -0800

funny that s/he thought the moving houses thing never happened - that's what mobile homes are, and they are constantly getting bigger, and marketed as more middle class (pre-fab homes, or whatever)...

By: PinkStainlessTail

PinkStainlessTail — Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:07:59 -0800

I especially like how the introduction predates the actual rollover to 2000. Oh how quaint the 20th century was, with its fears about the y2k bug!

By: COBRA!

COBRA! — Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:13:58 -0800

Wow, that was a cool page. And really encouraging, too, in its way. Like, even though we have some idea how the future is likely to pan out, the reality will almost certainly be pretty different from what we think.

By: jonson

jonson — Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:14:06 -0800

This is fantastic, thanks crunchland!

By: aiq

aiq — Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:15:19 -0800

in the year 2000! in the year 2000...

By: eddydamascene

eddydamascene — Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:33:25 -0800

According to the 1969 visions of Zager and Evans, in the year 4545 "you won't find a thing to chew." Additionally, they claim that nobody's gonna look at you. (*)

By: WolfDaddy

WolfDaddy — Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:46:21 -0800

Neat! Thanks, crunchland!

By: Officeslacker

Officeslacker — Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:50:40 -0800

That page was great, but whoever put it together wouldn't poke such fun at roofed cities if they'd been in a shopping arcade in Japan. And there are systems which can now see through walls, although they missed the millennium deadline by a year.

By: kozad

kozad — Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:12:24 -0800

And to add to Officeslacker's comment, police (as the Victorians foresaw!) have used some perceive-through-the-wall devices (infrared? I can't remember) and there have been some invasion-of-privacy issues raised about the practice.

By: fros1y

fros1y — Wed, 25 Jun 2003 16:51:07 -0800

In fact, we actually have some technology that's pretty much X-ray's through walls. http://www.sciscoop.com/story/2003/2/13/155342/305

By: ROU_Xenophobe

ROU_Xenophobe — Wed, 25 Jun 2003 16:55:19 -0800

kozad: they used IR cameras on planes or helos to look for people growing dope indoors (their roofs would get size extra-hot). Can't remember the case offhand, but the court agreed that you need a search warrant to do it.

By: taz

taz — Wed, 25 Jun 2003 17:15:58 -0800

This is wonderful. It is sort of amusing, though, to see all these new millenium folk still dressed in Victorian garb - except for the lady in the personal flying machine, who is daringly wearing a pants... thingy.

By: PigAlien

PigAlien — Wed, 25 Jun 2003 20:12:30 -0800

Fabulous post! I'm so glad there are still a few here struggling against the newsfilter tide. Oops, sorry, *metatalk*.

By: Hildago

Hildago — Wed, 25 Jun 2003 20:17:42 -0800

All of the balloons reflect a serious underestimation of the amount of volume required to lift a given mass. Unless you fill those balloons with Cavorite vapours, or perhaps some of the Luminiferous Ether.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Wed, 25 Jun 2003 20:24:28 -0800

perhaps of equal interest, from the same site: Inventors and Aviation.

By: jokeefe

jokeefe — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 12:35:41 -0800

I'm late to this, but just wanted to say [this is good] and thanks, crunchland.