Futuredays
a nineteenth-century vision of the year 2000
Book • 1986
Jean-Marc Côté's 'Futuredays' collects late-19th-century speculative illustrations and texts that imagined technological and social life in the year 2000.
The volume showcases how past societies envisioned futures, revealing both surprising prescience and amusing mispredictions.
It contextualizes those visions within the cultural and technological optimism of the era, showing how imaginaries of progress reflected contemporary hopes and anxieties.
The book highlights the role of artists and popular media in shaping collective expectations about the future.
Readers gain insight into how futurism has historical roots in culture and imagination as much as in formal disciplines.
The volume showcases how past societies envisioned futures, revealing both surprising prescience and amusing mispredictions.
It contextualizes those visions within the cultural and technological optimism of the era, showing how imaginaries of progress reflected contemporary hopes and anxieties.
The book highlights the role of artists and popular media in shaping collective expectations about the future.
Readers gain insight into how futurism has historical roots in culture and imagination as much as in formal disciplines.
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