This is how artists imagined the 21st century more than a hundred years ago

Visitors to the World's Fair in Paris in 1900 were in for a big surprise if they bought boxes of cigarettes at this event. Namely, each of these boxes contained an illustration showing the future as imagined by some French artists, led by Jean-Marc Cotti. Many of these illustrations later ended up on postcards.

The artists who made them were given the task of guessing what the world would look like in 2000. It seems that many of them already foresaw vacuum cleaners, mechanization in agriculture and the use of airplanes in military conflicts. However, they exaggerated in some things, so it is so noticeable that they overestimated how many people will fly independently in the coming period, and they also had a wrong vision of the progress of underwater technologies.