The title is self explanatory.

The article, written by Kristin Hohenadel and found on Slate.com, can be found here:

How Artists in the Late 1800’s Imagined Life In The Year 2000

The illustrations presented are pretty absurd.  Given all the technological advances made in the 20th Century, it would be startling if anyone from the late 1800’s (well, other than Jules Verne!) could conceive of what things might be like one hundred years later.

I particularly enjoyed this piece, showing us a future school:

Love the fact that in this far flung future you have books being dropped into some kind of grinder-like machine (and one of the students has to work that grinder!!!) and the information on the books is somehow transmitted to the students…how?

An auditory presentation?  The books are read to the students or perhaps the implication is that the headphones transmit the information to the kid’s minds somehow?

If you like that piece, you should see  some of the others!