I don't know who created this wondrous picture, but I love it. Notice the old-fashioned microphones, the cords connecting the screens to the batteries, and the headphones. Plus the personal air-car in the background.
It could be a spoof, created last year, and made to look like something drawn in the 30s, but the fact that one of the women is smoking, and there is a servant, suggests to me that it is genuine. Science Fiction is quite good at guessing future technological trends, but hopeless at guessing social trends. Very little of the 1940s and 50s SF guessed that, 70 years later, women would be aircraft pilots and political leaders. No one guessed that people would give up smoking, at least, smoking tobacco. Hardly anyone foresaw the way Black people or gay men and women would gain equal rights.
We're blasé about technological advance―think of how we've embraced smartphones, jet travel and rocketry―but threatened by social changes. Right-wingers are happy to use Youtube, smartphones and laptops, but terrified of minority groups gaining equality.
Is this picture genuine? I don't know, but I think it could be.
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