Flying Fire Fighters (And Other Inventions That Didn’t Come To Pass)

Flying firemen . atomic number 88 - heated abode . Robot - assisted architect , seamster , and barbers ( eek ! ) . These are the technology of the year 2000 , as foresee by French illustrator Villemard in a series of beautiful drawing produced in 1910 . They are pretty fruity … except when they are n’t .

While Villemard may have give us more acknowledgment in the kingdom of air travel than we deserved — a good one-half of thedrawings in the setinvolve flying auto that never really panned out — some of his other technical predictions were surprisingly on head . This video - conference apparatus , for example , is n’t a far cry from some that we use today . Still not letting a robo - barber get anywhere near my dome , though . [ FlickrviaBLDG BLOG ]

Dellinspiron2in1