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Complexity  ·  4104 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Our mentality hasn't yet adapted to a rapidly changing world

I very much enjoy these sketches by Cote and others envisioning what this century would be like from the vantage point of the last.

http://publicdomainreview.org/2012/06/30/france-in-the-year-.../

What interests me is that some of the ideas are reasonably accurate, although they are using antiquated technology in an antiquated setting (e.g. the steampunk synthesier concert to a polite parlour audience) whereas some are laughable because the entire concept has been superseded: flying postal workers delivering letters to rural inhabitants, risible for much different reasons.