Paleo-Future, a fantastic blog about "the future that never was," dug up a nice image that ran in the Brown County Democrat (De Pere, Wisconsin) newspaper in 1900. Back then, they predicted that we'll all have Segway-like "Footomobile" by now!
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I predicted Segway robots in the mid-1990s. I hadn't appreciated this prediction lark (for Segways) went back 100 years! Just think of the difference in history if the electric car (which were available back then) (and segways) caught on rather than the dreaded gasoline mobiles...
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I get a kick out of the "cow catchers" on the front of the gizmos. What a great way to toss pedestrians out of one's way!
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Umm, Tim, think that's a collision. (Unless, of course, they are making sparks, which explains why there's no women!)
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I love the image of the two guys in the background rubbing their chests together to make sparks.
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Interesting that this futuristic world seems to be utterly white male-dominated. I suppose the imagination could only stretch so far!
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