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This 350 year old Dutch painting appears to show a man using a smartphone (but it's probably just a similarly shaped object).
Neptune (& family presumably) riding on some kind of whale/seal creatures - painting by Charles Napier Kennedy.
A year after the Sinking of the Spanish Armada, Queen Elizabeth dispatched an English armada to Spain in revenge. It was also mostly sunk.
Vikings never got scurvy on long sea voyages because they always brought lots of sauerkraut.
What 1900 people thought life would be like in the year 2000: machines to control the weather.
What 1900 people thought life would be like in the year 2000: North Pole tourism. (Probably will happen with climate change...)
Leonardo da Vinci was a bodybuilder, strong enough to bend an iron horseshoe with his bare hands.
Henry III of France reportedly kept 2,000 lap dogs and regularly wore a basket of puppies around his neck.
What 1900 people thought life would be like in the year 2000: personal flying machines.