And here we go with the promised second part of ‘Imagined Futures’ ie. what people in the past thought the future would actually be like. Here we’ll have Frenchman Louis-Sébastien Mercier’s incredible predictions of the year 2440, written in 1771.

Plus we have: underwater croquet, underwater racing with eels used in place of horses, underwater submarine buses, and a whale bus.. It’s how people of the 1800s imagined the year 2000!

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