across the cheeks of trusting clients However this whole operation seems far more complicated than the barber having done the job himself Or could it perhaps be that this card doesn t mean to depict the anticipation of a desirable future at all but ques tions whether it makes sense to use a machine Visionary acceleration Common to all the utopian ideas of those days is an awesome zest for motion and acceleration that defi ne the working world of an imagined future anticipated by farsighted visionaries While just 70 years earlier the fi rst railroads had still been re jected in Europe for fear that their awesome speed of 20 and more miles per hour might harm the Meanwhile the farmer of the year 2000 while sitting on his porch would direct an armada of harvesting machines through his fi elds using the toggles of a remote control device In this case autonomous agricultural machines and robotic farm hands have long become reality too Another example of a vi sion turned reality is the tailor next door produc ing a custom suit from a steam powered 3D printer with a fl ick of the wrist By contrast the vision of a conductor directing the performance of a robotic or chestra has still remained a utopian idea And will a robot ever replace a barber If so then it will no doubt diff er from the illustration in the French post card series where a barber was operating an ear ly forebear of a modern industrial robot that would almost tenderly move the shaving brush and razor 100 years ahead of 3D printing the steam powered custom tailor and in an orchestra pit at a barber shop Machine maestros on a farm 44

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