A futurist vision of automated warehouses from the series En L’An 2000 by French artist Jean-Marc Côté and his collaborators. In the early nineteenth century, French artist Jean-Marc Côté and a number of collaborators produced a collection of images meant to depict the year 2000 as they imagined it. Because of financial difficulties, the En L’An 2000 series was never actually distributed, only coming to light thanks to its publication by science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in the 1980s. Though you might not exactly call it utopian (the future, as imagined by Côté and his associates, still seems to […]
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