world news - Paintings reveal what people in 1900 thought the year 2000 would look like

얼마 전 미국 워싱턴 포스트에서 19세기 프랑스 작가들이 그린 2000년대 지구의 풍속화 수십 장을 공개했죠? 장마크 꼬테 등 당대 유명 화가들이 참여했는데요. 이들 그림에서 드러나는 상상 속 2000년대의 모습은 놀랍게도 지금과 크게 다르지 않네요. 관련 기사를 함께 읽어보겠습니다. Paintings reveal what people in 1900 thought the year 2000 would look like There are few / little things as fascinating as seeing what people in the past dreamed about the future. Lots of their ideas involve mechanized devices, flying, or a combination of the two. Some, strangely, involve people interacting in a very close and personal way with / to marine life. As Open Culture points out, however, there are no images of space travel. Some of the portraits are fantastic -- swashbucklers riding on giant seahorses, anyone? But others are actually surprisingly accurate / inaccurate visions of our current era, including farming machines, helicopters, and what looks like a precursor to the new robot vacuum, the iRobot Roomba vacuum.