The mystery of the set of paintings predicting the future drawn 100 years ago: The details match incredibly well

A collection of 87 colorful paintings painted by mysterious French artists more than a century ago, discovered by accident, has surprisingly predicted many scientific inventions today.

According to a post on Dailymail, these prophetic paintings were discovered in a cardboard box at Hansons auction house (Derbyshire), England, as part of a collection called "En L'An 2000 [And the year 2000]" which contains many details that match reality incredibly well. These are said to be drawings that many French artists, including Jean-Marc Cote, were asked to make to illustrate the future for the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900.

The original series was published in 1899, originally for cigar/cigarette boxes, and later printed as postcards due to their popularity. Underwater transportation, human exploration of the sky and sea in the 21st century are almost all featured in the paintings in the collection in various ways.

These include images of people playing croquet underwater with sophisticated breathing apparatus, whales - the giant and mysterious mammals of the past - becoming familiar with human life in the future, even taking part in carrying passengers under the sea, or winged firefighters extinguishing fires from the sky, fish racing and air taxis flying over the city.

Interestingly, in addition to being humorous, some of the illustrations accurately predicted scientific advances and inventions, such as the helicopter. In fact, the world's first helicopter did not come into service until 1939, 40 years after the illustrations were made.

A picture has been painted of a future life with technology being applied in ways beyond imagination. For example, the vision of video calling like Skype/Facetime has been around for over a century.

Another postcard shows a machine that scans the body and automatically prints clothes on demand. This is becoming a reality with the development of 3D scanning systems. Amazon has even patented technology to produce clothes on site.

In 1910, the first commercial flight was still a dream, but postcards envisioned airborne firefighting. Today, drones are being used to monitor wildfires.

The ancients foretold the possibility of listening to the news at home on demand. The future was filled with new forms of entertainment, such as electric roller skates, an invention that has come to fruition. Visions of home automation were also expressed in the image of a dishwasher-like device. There are even robots that can do people’s hair.

Jim Spencer, of Hansons Auctioneers, shared his amazement at finding these vivid prints with surreal visions of the future. “I was even more surprised when I started researching them and realised how rare they were,” he added.

According to Mr. Spencer, the collection he found includes many individual designs, printed in color on eight uncut cards. The series "En L'An 2000" was created by French artists, including Jean-Marc Cote, to illustrate the World Exhibition in Paris in 1900.

They were originally intended to be printed on cigar/cigarette boxes, but due to financial difficulties this plan was abandoned. Later, several more designs were added, bringing the total to 87, and were printed as postcards, but were also not issued.

The collection was forgotten until the 1980s, when science fiction writer Isaac Asimov stumbled upon a set of postcards and featured them in his book "Futuredays: A Nineteenth Century Vision of the Year 2000."

"En L'An 2000 [And the Year 2000]" was auctioned at Hansons' Library Auction (Bishton Hall, Wolseley Bridge, Staffordshire) on 31 July 2019. Experts consider the collection to be extremely rare and may be the first time such an original set of paintings has been offered for sale.

Not only the French artists, but also a Japanese artist predicted the future. That is Ryo Tatsuki. The female artist's prophecies are expressed through the work "The Future as I See It", published in 1999.

In that comic book, Ryo Tatsuki made 15 prophecies for the world in the future and surprisingly, up to now, 13/15 of those predictions have come true. It was only after more than 20 years that this special comic book helped the artist become famous.

Ryo Tatsuki said that for many years, she often dreamed of strange things, visions of major and minor disasters of the world in the future, a total of 15 dreams. Just 15 days later, one of her dreams came true. Therefore, Tatsuki decided to publish a book to talk about her prophetic dreams.

On January 2, 1995, Ryo Tatsuki dreamed that one day in the future, the Kobe area of Japan would suffer great damage and disaster. Surprisingly, just 15 days later, this dream came true. Then on March 11, 1996, the female artist had another dream that exactly 15 years later, in March 2011, a super natural disaster would occur in eastern Japan.

On March 11, 2011, her dream came true once again. At 2:46 a.m. that morning, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck the Pacific Ocean east of Sendai, eastern Japan.

Tatsuki also dreamed of Princess Diana of the United Kingdom on August 31, 1992. As a result, 5 years later, on August 31, 1997, Princess Diana passed away in a car accident in Paris. Not stopping there, this talented artist also correctly predicted the COVID-19 pandemic.

On January 2, 1995, Ryo Tatsuki had a dream that a virus would appear in 2020, peak in April, and return in October, but it would not be a disease with a high mortality rate. Indeed, in 2020, COVID-19 spread and affected the whole world, breaking out strongly in April 2020 in countries such as Italy, the UK, the US, then continuing to break out in India and some Southeast Asian countries in October 2020.

Regarding the two prophecies that have not yet been fulfilled, many believe that they will happen soon in the future, which are the prediction of a volcanic eruption at Mount Fuji and a major earthquake along the Nankai Trough, on the island of Honshu, Japan.

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