virtually any disease due to its beneficial radiation and in sufficient ly high dosage even put an end to aging and death Meanwhile Ger man cavalry general Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin lent wings to the high powered dreams of a whole nation with his rigid airships made of cotton aluminum and the intestines of cattle With that the force of gravity seemed to have been overcome once and for all Some utopian dreams became reality In keeping with the euphoria of the times scientists and the still young genre of science fiction novels as well as the illustrators of the collectible cards added to chocolate boxes that were highly pop ular at the time painted a bright picture of the year 2000 The Ber lin based cocoa factory Hildebrand subsequently known for its caffeinated Scho Ka Kola chocolate brand saw law enforcement officers of the future hunting down criminals using portable X ray devices to peek through walls Today reality has long caught up with such fantasies The Hamburg Customs Authority for instance has been X raying shipping containers to put a stop to the game of criminal smugglers since 1996 The first 20 years reflect the fol lowing statistics in total more than 1 5 billion untaxed cigarettes 2 700 weapons and ammunition 38 000 kilograms 83 770 lb of marihuana 13 200 kilograms 29 000 lb of hash and 4 600 kilo grams 10 140 lb of cocaine were confiscated identified by just one stationary system The observation of suspects through walls as shown in the pictures on little chocolate cards has been possible for a long time too thanks to sensitive thermal imaging cameras But let s go back to the utopian dreams of the past Fire fighters de picted on a French postcard series En L An 2000 equipped with bat wings would fly to the scene of the blaze while border patrol officers accelerated by propellers on their back would hunt down smugglers These visions have become reality too Dubai equips its fire fighters with jetpacks designed to enable them to rescue people from burning skyscrapers The emirate s police force is also supposed to become air borne by means of hoverboards while fighting crime with unmanned aerial vehicles aka drones has already become routine practice In the area of mobility utopian thinkers have demonstrated vision ary powers as well even though some of their ideas got stuck in the world of fantasy Back in those days global distances had shrunk into short commutes a suspended monorail train would provide a daily shuttle service for business travelers from Berlin to Cameroon Those having to cross the Atlantic on business would take the sub sea whale bus or the practical maritime railroad across water and land whose trains seamlessly glided from the waves onto the train tracks And people with an even greater zest for travel would hop on a motorized flying taxi to the Moon and back Chocolaterie Lombart Paris 1912 at night If you want to read the future you have to scroll in the past André Malraux French writer 1901 1976 42

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