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Brilliant.

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This is so great! It’s like Richard Scarry meets Wes Anderson and I mean that in the best way.

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Instead, we get AI!

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Right. That teacher could be Sam Altman stealing content for training.

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Again, thank you Peter!

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2000 to 2001 - what a difference a year makes! From a whale-powered submarine and hand-cranked artificial intelligence to a Jupiter mission controlled by a paranoid homicidal AGI computer.

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'I'm sorry, Dave...'

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Hahahaha!

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Amazing(?) how the prediction that came nearest to truth (and quickest) was the most destructive. Do we never learn?

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"Do we never learn?" Could be the subtitle for my Substack.

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Tanks... 😕

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Love the whale bus! Amazing how much people want to personally fly but we still can't.

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That whale bus! Love the pilot and tillerman

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This is excellent! Do you have any sense how representative these images are of the then-zeitgeist? (Maybe less so on the whale one…)

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I’m no expert, but I see a lot of similar stuff from that era. Check out “Who Is Filibus? Cinema's first gender-fluid, cross-dressing, anti-hero, steampunk, sky pirate” https://forgottenfiles.substack.com/p/who-is-filibus

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Is this all from the same timeframe as Tin Tin? I loved those comics. Artwork seems similar. Anyway, Viva La France!

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This is fabulous. They had some Jetsons-style ideas for hygiene that I like a lot. The automatic tailor presaged the one in Sleeper. And that whale bus - so fanciful.

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Forgot about Sleeper. Great film about the future!

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Delightful stuff today, Peter. Have you seen the Conan O'Brien skit by a similar name?

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Thanks. Have not, but I’ll check it out

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I always found them amusing. I think they meant to hearken back to these.

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