Albert Robida 3 hr 55 min read

In the electric world of the twentieth century, telephonoscopes, air-cars, and a great electrical romance unfold, the prophetic future imagined by a visionary caricaturist.

Albert Robida's 1890 'The Twentieth Century: Electric Life' is a witty, gorgeously illustrated vision of a technological future. Prophetic, funny, dazzling. Read it for one of the great illustrated futurisms of the nineteenth century, foreseeing screens, air travel, and electric life, in French.

In its time

Published in 1890, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

3 hr 55 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).