Here’s How People 100 Years Ago Thought We’d Be Living Today

In 100 years, there will be flying taxis and people will routinely travel to the moon. Knowledge will be instilled into school children by wires attached to their heads. These may sound like the predictions of modern-day futurists, but they're actually how people a century ago saw the future--otherwise known to you and me as the present. This selection of postcards from the collection of Xbox co-founder Ed Fries illustrates a view of the 21st century that is remarkably prescient in some ways and hilariously wrong in others.

















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