En L'An 2000
En L'An 2000 (In the Year 2000, also loosely translated as France in the 21st Century) is a French image series depicting scientific advances imagined as achieved by the year 2000. At least 87 were produced, by artists including Jean-Marc Côté. They were printed in 1899, 1900, 1901 and 1910, first on paper as cigar box inserts, and later as picture postcards,[1][2] but never distributed. The only known set of the postcards was acquired by writer Isaac Asimov, who featured them in his nonfiction work Futuredays: A Nineteenth Century Vision of the Year 2000 (Henry Holt and Company, 1986).[3][4]
Air firefighters, one of the postcard images
Gallery
- Examples of artworks
Air cup
Air hunters
Air police
Microbes
A Race in the Pacific
Future school
A Whale-bus
Air cabs - hansom cabs of the (then) future, depicted in En L'An 2000 illustrated by Jean-Marc Côté
References
- A 19th-Century Vision of the Year 2000, The Public Domain Review, retrieved April 17, 2020.
- Robert T. Gonzalez, "Visions of the year 2000 by 20th century French artist are half hilariously wrong, half weirdly prescient", io9, August 16, 2012.
- David J. Hill, "19th Century French Artists Predicted The World Of The Future In This Series Of Postcards", Singularity Hub, October 15, 2012.
- Review, Kirkus Reviews 54 (1986) 1256.
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