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.
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.
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
Again, thank you Peter!
Instead, we get AI!
Right. That teacher could be Sam Altman stealing content for training.
Delightful stuff today, Peter. Have you seen the Conan O'Brien skit by a similar name?
Thanks. Have not, but I’ll check it out
I always found them amusing. I think they meant to hearken back to these.
Love the whale bus! Amazing how much people want to personally fly but we still can't.
That whale bus! Love the pilot and tillerman
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.
Forgot about Sleeper. Great film about the future!
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.
'I'm sorry, Dave...'
Hahahaha!
Amazing(?) how the prediction that came nearest to truth (and quickest) was the most destructive. Do we never learn?
"Do we never learn?" Could be the subtitle for my Substack.
Tanks... 😕
This is excellent! Do you have any sense how representative these images are of the then-zeitgeist? (Maybe less so on the whale one…)
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
Is this all from the same timeframe as Tin Tin? I loved those comics. Artwork seems similar. Anyway, Viva La France!
This is so great! It’s like Richard Scarry meets Wes Anderson and I mean that in the best way.