FaceTime 1910 A.D.

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!]

• [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=

  • [Antinous / Moderator]

    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).