Whale-Buses & Flying Firemen: Victorian Futurism19th-century artists predict life in the year 2000.
From the show
Historically Bad AdviceDiscover the charming and wildly inaccurate predictions for the 20th century from a series of turn-of-the-century French illustrations. These visions, featuring everything from underwater croquet to mechanized personal wings, reveal a fascinating truth: our view of the future is always shaped by the limitations and biases of our present.
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