In 1900, German chocolate company Hildebrands produced a series of postcards imagining the wonders of life in the year 2000.
The optimistic renderings envisioned people in Victorian fashions enjoying lives of boundless leisure and comfort enabled by a century of technological advancement.
The predicted innovations range from accurate (live broadcasts of plays) to absurd (cities covered by weather-proof glass roofs) to depressingly plausible in the near future (summer holidays at the North Pole).
Movable sidewalks.
Moving an entire city block by rail.
Strolling on a lake with the aid of balloons.
A live audiovisual broadcast of a theatre performance.
Weather-controlling machines.
A hybrid railship.
Tourist submarines.
Personal airships.
Tourism at the North Pole.
X-ray surveillance device.
Weather-proof city roofing.
