{"id":5383,"date":"2008-06-05T05:19:05","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T05:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=5383"},"modified":"2008-06-05T05:20:39","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T05:20:39","slug":"the-future-as-it-was-thought-100-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2008\/06\/the-future-as-it-was-thought-100-years-ago-today\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future as it was Thought 100 Years Ago Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reconstructing what you&#8217;ve lost is a tedious process. Even moreso when you realize the one thing you wanted to keep slipped through the cracks.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a snapshot from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.docstoc.com\/docs\/614958\/What-People-Thought-the-Future-Would-Look-Like100-Years-Ago\" class=\"external external_icon\"> 23 images of what people 100 years ago<\/a> figured today would be like.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.docstoc.com\/docs\/614958\/What-People-Thought-the-Future-Would-Look-Like100-Years-Ago\" class=\"external\"><img src='http:\/\/i72.photobucket.com\/albums\/i170\/groonk\/future100yrsago.jpg' alt='100 years ago the future' class='aligncenter' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So back then they figured the future would involve airborne luxuries, button pushing construction, and road wars with random highwaymen.<\/p>\n<p>I feel cheated.<\/p>\n<p>(via some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.docstoc.com\/docs\/614958\/What-People-Thought-the-Future-Would-Look-Like100-Years-Ago\" class=\"external external_icon\">guy on docstoc<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reconstructing what you&#8217;ve lost is a tedious process. Even moreso when you realize the one thing you wanted to keep slipped through the cracks. Below is a snapshot from 23 images of what people 100 years ago figured today would be like. So back then they figured the future would involve airborne luxuries, button pushing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,17,77],"tags":[102,127,128],"class_list":["post-5383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-history","category-the-future","tag-flying-man","tag-road-wars","tag-vintage-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}