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Here's a thread of visual conceptions of the future at different times in history.
Paris, France, in the Future (1905)
Paris, France, in the Future (1905)
"In the city of the near future, fully packed with skyscrapers, the only place to build new housing will be on airships floating above" (1909)
Whale submarines will ferry us in the year 2000. (1908)
The Scientific American keeping things realistic in 1917: "The flying limousine on the ground and in the air. In the future we will have elegant private planes to take us to elegant social events. Perhaps not triplanes, though."
This one is tame in comparison. "They'll call him "lucky" in future decades, because in 1942 he was smart enough to see that later on, in a postwar economy, it was wise to have located on the Chessie corridor." I find their depiction of success kind of lonely though
Speer's Germania; the plans for Hitler's post war Berlin
Predicted climate effected water rise in Florida, An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
Prediction of air to ground warfare (1909)
I don't speak German, but
Sea trains
This isn't too far off
No idea
Helicopters for EVERYBODY!
