Interesting postcards

[stache]

illustrating 1900 version of Y2K living conditions at http://paleo-future.blogspot.com/2007/04/postcards-showing-year-2000-circa-1900.html

[ablarc]

Interesting, indeed. None of the predictions seem to have come true, except perhaps moving sidewalks (in airports and subway stations). But much greater miracles have transpired instead --such as the internet communication we engage in daily on this very board.

[Punzie]

I love them! Does anybody know if there's a website where these postcards can be sent as e-cards? And are paper postcard replicas sold anywhere?

[Punzie]

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i130/Rapunzel61/EWNY/Art/y2kImage4.jpg

Television and cell phones, eh?

(I'm the girl in the pink dress and Edward's the guy on the cell.)

[Punzie]

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i130/Rapunzel61/EWNY/Art/y2kImage9.jpg


Just wait a few years and Norman Foster will give it to us in a grand way::)

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p242/Lofter1/Asia/Atsana_FosterTent_01c.jpg

http://www.wirednewyork.com/forum/showpost.php?p=135106&postcount=2

[Punzie]

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i130/Rapunzel61/EWNY/Art/y2kImage10.jpg

Hot Air Ballooning!!


I'm the girl in the green dress, sharing Edward's jumbo balloon with 2 unidentified females(?).

[Zerlina]

So nice!:)