JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
[Image source: Library of Congress, here.]
Albert Robida (1848-1926) imagined many things in his long and illustrative career, seeing deep into the futures that would/didn’t come to be. Perhaps this one is nearly coming true but in a different format–his imagination 1882 inspiration of what the future of air traffic would be like attending the Paris Opera (“Le Sortie de l’opéra en l’an 2000”) might seem more prescient of the view was in 2030 and the taxi cabs and other air chariots were drones instead. In this version of the future there are restaurants and limos and buses and private air vehicles galore, all anthropomorphically cluttering the environment 1500′ above the city-center of it all though is a blue centurion, riding a futuristic Electra Glide, a helmeted cop on a small and sleek vehicle, right in the center of the sheet.