Now look at the following images. All three were made by artists at different times in history to depict how people might live i
n the future. Image 1 a drawing from 1900 depicting a future in which people fly using giant wings This image was made in Germany in 1900. Its title is “The City of Salzburg in the Year 2000.”
Image 2 a spaceship carrying a city inside a glass bubble landing on a mountain range on earth This image is taken from the article “10,000 Years Hence,” which appeared in an issue of the magazine Science and Invention in 1922.
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two astronauts standing on the grounds of a moon colony This image of a potential moon colony was made for the National Air and Space Administration (NASA) in 1995. Select one of the images and write a 200-word essay about it. What is the artist depicting? What are some details in the image that attract your attention? How would you compare this image to the sources you read earlier? Would some of the elements that writers described in the previous activity exist in these images? In what way?
"The City of Salzburg in the Year 2000" is a very peculiar painting that shows humanity's ambition to develop scientific advances that can improve everyone's life.
The painting was created in 1900 representing a future in which people fly using giant wings. At that time, the plane had not yet been invented, but man's desire to cross the skies while traveling was already present in society. The most interesting thing about this image is the artist's certainty in showing how we would be able to fly, even if it took a thousand years to happen. The image reaffirms the human being's intelligence and his capacity to innovate and build.
The artist does not imagine in 3 years later, in 1903 there were already people creating the first prototype aircraft and doing research to make them possible. Which means that the advance we dream of is often closer than we can imagine.
