# French Prints Show the Year 2000, From 1910's Perspective **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 11, 2007, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-prints-show-the-year-2000-from-1910s-perspective/418737 "2007-09-11T02:15:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-prints-show-the-year-2000-from-1910s-perspective/418737/1 "2007-09-11T02:15:33Z")
It’s almost funny. And shows how much we don’t consider how we’ll create so much new technology in the future, rather than just improve what we already have. Whoever thought that we’d all have a computer to talk to each other 30 years ago? Anyways, here’s the link, enjoy: [http://paleo-future.blogspot.com/2007/09/french-prints-show-year-2000-1910.html](http://paleo-future.blogspot.com/2007/09/french-prints-show-year-2000-1910.html) ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-prints-show-the-year-2000-from-1910s-perspective/418737/2 "2007-09-11T02:23:41Z")
I have some of them in an encyclopaedia of sci-fi. They’re great. Not as great as the threadkiller thread but sure dem’s the breaks or brakes. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-prints-show-the-year-2000-from-1910s-perspective/418737/3 "2007-09-11T02:30:22Z")
I refuse to allow you to kill this thread. Thoughtless. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-prints-show-the-year-2000-from-1910s-perspective/418737/4 "2007-09-11T02:33:59Z")
I love the “cars of war.” ---
**Author:** ![trupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@trupa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trupa)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-prints-show-the-year-2000-from-1910s-perspective/418737/5 "2007-09-11T05:19:25Z")
[This page from the 1900 Ladies Home Journal](http://bp3.blogger.com/_sGYULzoQCgA/RiR7L_dyCLI/AAAAAAAAAdU/2COTRQtZAk8/s1600-h/Ladies+Home+Journal+Dec+1900+paleofuture+paleo-future.jpg) is surpisingly accurate. It predicts, 100 years into the future: -wireless phones and cheap long distance -e-commerce -central air conditioning and heating -cars more common than horses -elimination of coal for home heating and cooking -live satellite TV -TGV/bullet trains -transatlantic flights -frozen dinners & packaged food among other things. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-prints-show-the-year-2000-from-1910s-perspective/418737/6 "2007-09-11T05:43:22Z")
And pills to make your husband less horny. ---
**Author:** ![RumMunkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@RumMunkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RumMunkey)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-prints-show-the-year-2000-from-1910s-perspective/418737/7 "2007-09-11T15:06:03Z")
Many of the robotic arm-assisted devices seem to be influenced by Chaplin’s "[Modern Times](http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/c/c5/250px-CharlieChaplinTheModernTimes2.jpg) ". ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-prints-show-the-year-2000-from-1910s-perspective/418737/8 "2007-09-11T15:16:23Z")
[QUOTE=RumMunkey] Many of the robotic arm-assisted devices seem to be influenced by Chaplin’s "[Modern Times](http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/c/c5/250px-CharlieChaplinTheModernTimes2.jpg) ". [/QUOTE] Or vice-versa. ---
**Author:** ![RumMunkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@RumMunkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RumMunkey)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-prints-show-the-year-2000-from-1910s-perspective/418737/9 "2007-09-11T15:43:08Z")
> [@](#): > > Or vice-versa. touché. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-prints-show-the-year-2000-from-1910s-perspective/418737/10 "2007-09-11T15:49:34Z")
[QUOTE=Argent Towers] I love the “cars of war.” [/QUOTE] We call them “armored cars,” which seems pretty close. Remember, “tank” onlyrefers to what we think of as tanks because it was used as an innocuous code term during wartime security. Sailboat ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-prints-show-the-year-2000-from-1910s-perspective/418737/11 "2007-09-11T15:59:05Z")
[QUOTE=trupa] [This page from the 1900 Ladies Home Journal](http://bp3.blogger.com/_sGYULzoQCgA/RiR7L_dyCLI/AAAAAAAAAdU/2COTRQtZAk8/s1600-h/Ladies+Home+Journal+Dec+1900+paleofuture+paleo-future.jpg) is surpisingly accurate. It predicts, 100 years into the future: -wireless phones and cheap long distance -e-commerce -central air conditioning and heating -cars more common than horses -elimination of coal for home heating and cooking -live satellite TV -TGV/bullet trains -transatlantic flights -frozen dinners & packaged food among other things. [/QUOTE] “The trip from suburban home to office will require a few minutes only. A penny will pay the fare.” :dubious: Also what’s this: “[The American] will live fifty years, instead of thirty-five as at present.” No way was the average life expectancy 35 years in the USA in 1900. No way. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-prints-show-the-year-2000-from-1910s-perspective/418737/12 "2007-09-11T16:25:59Z")
[QUOTE=Colophon] Also what’s this: “[The American] will live fifty years, instead of thirty-five as at present.” No way was the average life expectancy 35 years in the USA in 1900. No way. [/QUOTE] You’re right about that. Look in table 12a on [this source](http://www.efmoody.com/estate/lifeexpectancy.html). LIFE EXPECTANCY AT BIRTH, 1900 TOTAL 49.2 MEN 47.9 WOMEN 50.7 Very close to the 50 predicted instead of the 35 quoted. Sailboat ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-prints-show-the-year-2000-from-1910s-perspective/418737/13 "2007-09-11T16:57:40Z")
I actually saw someone a few months ago with something that looked almost exactly like the “car shoes” picture, the only difference is that it was one piece rather than two. ---
**Author:** ![The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a87d85/32.png) [@The\_King\_of\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_King_of_Soup)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-prints-show-the-year-2000-from-1910s-perspective/418737/14 "2007-09-11T17:04:34Z")
“At School” looks a lot like a modern language lab. Except for the monstrosity in the right foreground. I mean, I can’t remember the last time I used my _manual_ book grinder. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/french-prints-show-the-year-2000-from-1910s-perspective/418737/15 "2007-09-11T19:29:38Z")
I love the one kid who has to work the book grinder – “No learning for you!”