A group of French artists came together in 1899 to depict their vision of life in the year 2000 in a series of illustrated trade cards. At once beautiful and bizarre, the artists’ predictions play the expectations of our predecessors against real-world progress with fascinating results.
En L’An 2000 (In the Year 2000) was a collaboration between artists led by the French illustrator Jean-Marc Côté in which each artist was tasked with imagining what France would look like in 100 years. At least 87 pictures were produced, according to Captaloona Art, and while some of the artists’ visions seem outrageous, some are remarkably on the nose, reflecting real-world technological advances that we recognize today….