Published On: Tue, Sep 4th, 2012

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How the future will look like – 1899 perspective on 2000

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Gizmodo shows off a series of pictures of what French futurist Jean-Marc Côté and other artists thought the world would look like in 2000, from the perspective of the 1900 World Exhibition in Paris. Click on the link – there are some great pictures.

History Future Now, ebook edition, is now available from the Apple iBookstore! So if you have a iPad or iPhone click on this link to download it. It is currently on at a special offer of 99c. The Kindle version has been submitted to Amazon and should be available shortly.

@tristanfischer

Pictures: what people in 1899 thought people would be doing in 2000. Remarkably similar to what we think for 2100! http://t.co/3zTnnrvr
@marialex203

How the future will look like 1899 perspective on 2000. History, Future. Now. http://t.co/Jf8kxepo #arte #historia artista o visionario?
Tristan Fischer (@tristanfischer)

How the future will look like – 1899 perspective on 2000 – Gizmodo shows off a series of pictures of what… http://t.co/HrNUxEpJ3m #HFN

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History Future Now is a website devoted to putting current events into a historical and future context. When we look back in time we have the benefit of seeing how each historical event laid the foundations of the next historical event. History looks neat and later events inevitable.

This neatness is an illusion. Past historical events had thousands of possible outcomes which could have set us on a radically different path and there is a whole cannon of alternative histories that look into these outcomes in more depth.

Nevertheless, there are major themes in history that result in inevitable outcomes. This website looks at these themes and tries to project them into the future, referring to the present as nothing but a continuation of the past and the future as nothing but a continuation of the present.

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