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Rob Beschizza at 3:10 pm Thu, Aug 19, 2010

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f9c28571820c52ab2a617f755496f8a3_image_document_large_featured_borderless.jpg Spiegel.de has some more futuristic gems from the legendary Hildebrandt chocolates collection previously blogged by Cory. Pictured here are some videophones and a flying car. Technikträume um 1900 [Spiegel. Thanks, Mike!]

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  • Anonymous

    It’s 2010 already. So where’s my flying car? I WANT MY FLYING CAR!

  • edthehippie

    Why is woody allen wearing a blond wig and smiling ??

  • Stefan Jones

    Bad link:

    http://www.boingboing.net/2010/08/19/a%20href=

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      Fixed.

  • Matthew Miller

    In the future, smoking is good for you!

    • Felton

      Dr. Melik: This morning for breakfast he requested something called “wheat germ, organic honey and tiger’s milk.”

      Dr. Aragon: [chuckling] Oh, yes. Those are the charmed substances that some years ago were thought to contain life-preserving properties.

      Dr. Melik: You mean there was no deep fat? No steak or cream pies or… hot fudge?

      Dr. Aragon: Those were thought to be unhealthy… precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true.

      Dr. Melik: Incredible.

      -from the IMDB entry on Sleeper

  • capl

    Früher war die Zukunft auch besser (In the past, even the future was better)
    Karl Valentin

  • Anonymous

    I absolutely the hats.

  • Brainspore

    I liked images #25 & 26. Imagine a crazy-ass futuristic world where a man stays home to take care of the baby while his wife hangs out with friends at a bar! They’ll be giving women the vote next.

  • sam1148

    More shocking, is that they’re females wearing pant suits and smoking in public.

  • Anonymous

    That’s not even close to Facetime. Those devices clearly work over a 3G connection.

  • MrHarley

    Ahh nothing I like better after a long flight in my skycoach than doing a j over some ice cold Alpinedew while ignoring the present company to speak to a far more interesting distant acquaintance.

    • Anonymous

      Ahh nothing I like better after a long flight in my skycoach than doing a j over some ice cold Alpinedew while ignoring the present company to speak to a far more interesting distant acquaintance.

      So, they pegged the rudeness of people with cell phones and netbooks perfectly. I see this every day.

  • BoydWaters

    I think that’s a Dymaxion Car, not an aeroplane.

  • irksome

    Forward… into the past!

  • jimh

    I wonder if those communications devices can has a vibrate setting. (For a better tomorrow, today?)

    I mean, after you’re done talking to the kids, of course!

  • ncm

    He’s giving her the finger. I would too.

    At least cancer has been eliminated. And emphysema. But not wires or knobs, which means they have their priorities straight. And the phones double as sex toys.

  • bjacques

    But according to Mitchell & Webb, the Singularity is just around the corner!

  • Anonymous

    It’s like looking into a mirror.

  • absatz

    Wow… Humanity is predictable and transparent. Not visible from any but a few …

  • Anonymous

    Quite absurd, smoking in public. Who has such crazy ideas about the future?

  • cjp

    The Ladies Home Journal Article about the future referred to at the bottom of this link is far more interesting and disturbingly accurate.

    http://www.paleofuture.com/blog/2007/4/17/what-may-happen-in-the-next-hundred-years-ladies-home-journa.html

    They hit the nail on the head with almost every prediction, with the exception of ‘everyone will walk ten miles a day’.

  • pjcamp

    And cigarettes and daiquiris!

    Don’t forget those.

    Drinkin’ and smokin’ in front of the baby.

  • SKR

    where’s my flying car? i was promised flying cars!

  • jeligula

    Nice, but a roof over an entire city does not equate with a shopping mall. Most of the congruancies they draw are barely related. Why didn’t they post a 110 year old drawing of a woman giving birth and then add a shot of a modern delivery room alongside it? Or a man drinking from a bottle that contains nothing but water? The “predictions” were cool to see, but adding their so-called modern counterparts was just silly and irrelevant.

    • Daedalus

      I actually liked the modern things alongside the old stuff. Since I don’t read German, it helped me figure out what the old stuff was saying, and it cast a light on how we were “supposed” to be living.

      As for a mall not being a city: clearly, you weren’t a mallrat as a kid, and you don’t follow recent suburban mall development (which includes apartments above the stores for a more “community” feel).