Century-old French Postcards Depict Life in the 21st Century.

[RJBowman]

http://www.wired.com/2014/05/victorian-postcards-predict-future/#slide-id-918541
It's uncanny; they predicted our era perfectly.

[Keith_Beef]

It's uncanny; they predicted our era perfectly.

Wired used to be quite a good magazine. What happened? That selection of postcards was mediocre at the best, but the commentary was abysmal!

And who on earth is Ed Fries? Should I have heard of him? Is he an renowned academic, futurologist, philosopher? Ah, no, just somebody who ran an obscure division of Microsoft for a few years.

Meh.

[pakled05]

I always thought of Wired as what happened to Communications majors who couldn't find jobs... still, there used to be a retro-future site out there that beat this all hollow... All I remember was that it was broken out by decade (i.e., the 20s, 30s, etc)

[oldskoolpunk]

That's a well-known set of postcards.  They're on Wikimedia Commons.

[Paul Huxley]

Thanks for that link oldskoolpunk, that whale bus is excellent.

[Camellia Wingnut]

My Dears,
Uncanny! In Honolulu, we do have whale buses. Note the tail on the roof. . .

They are Japanese buses, and there are several in different colours.
C.W.