A set of 19th century postcards has revealed that's just what French
artists thought we'd be doing at the turn of the 21st century. The set
of postcards, produced between 1899 and 1910, predict what life
would be like in Paris in the year 2000 - and there are some fairly
bizarre scenes. The year 2000 may have been and gone - but no one has
yet invented a flying fireman, or started playing croquet underwater. And
while Parisians haven't as yet replaced the fireplace in their homes
with sticks of glowing radium, as one portrait shows, there are some
portraits which aren't too far off the mark.