Via James Fallows, a great exhibit from the French National Library of prints from 1910 depicting the utopian lifestyle of 2000. A lot of them involve weird air travel, but my favorite is this idea of using dangerous nuclear isotopes to replace your fireplace (“chauffage au radium”):
It’s particularly interesting when you consider that France is, in fact, the world leader in the use of nuclear energy.
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