In the Year 2000 -- French Cigarette Cards (c.1900)
At the very beginning of the 20th century a French company began using cards with pictures of the imagined world of the year 2000 to help sell cigarettes. The images below can be a good source about how the French viewed technology and its impact on the future in this period.
"A Curiosity in the Year 2000"
"The electric trainParis-Peijing in the Year 2000"
A Tailor -- The Last of his Kind in the Year 2000
A Barber in the Year 2000
At School in the Year 2000
Avenue of the Opera in the Year 2000
Correspondence -- Cinema+Phonograph+Telegraphy in the Year 2000
Phonographic Missive in the Year 2000
One for the Road in the Year 2000
Traffic in the Year 2000
Heating with Radium in the Year 2000
Hearing the Newspaper in the Year 2000