tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post7924089878566787490..comments2023-11-03T04:29:29.498-04:00Comments on Paleo-Future: The Next Hundred Years (Milwaukee Herold und Seebote, 1901)Matt Novakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09360406896692501416noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-80338692863894224802007-09-19T06:49:00.000-04:002007-09-19T06:49:00.000-04:00My German is slightly rusty, but as far as I can t...My German is slightly rusty, but as far as I can tell this article is either exactly or nearly the same as the Lady's Home Journal article.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-22406804372118740542007-04-24T12:29:00.000-04:002007-04-24T12:29:00.000-04:00I don't know about the article itself, but the ill...I don't know about the article itself, but the illustration for the article is amazingly prescient... not that history has every been different. What a marvelously accurate summary of all of human history: in order to wage one (war or social advancement), you must steal from the other. <BR/><BR/>And those scales are never quite in balance. Right now they are waaaaay out of balance.zandarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07027953827257885194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3904461976821332291.post-78290076729048140742007-04-16T11:33:00.000-04:002007-04-16T11:33:00.000-04:00Another good example of very old futurism you migh...Another good example of very old futurism you might want to check out is Albert Robida's <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0819566802/" REL="nofollow">The Twentieth Century</A> from 1882, which he both wrote and illustrated, a satirical depiction of the wonderful world of 1952. It featured flying cars (well, dirigibles), TV, feminism, technological warfare with tanks and submarines, and robots. There are some articles on the book <A HREF="http://www.sfsite.com/04a/tc197.htm" REL="nofollow">here</A> and <A HREF="http://www.depauw.edu/sfs/reviews_pages/r30.htm" REL="nofollow">here</A>.JesseMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09993568347649474812noreply@blogger.com