Those were paintings made for cigar boxes. Of course they are not supposed to be accurate. They are jokes, visions of the future in the same way that Idiocracy

Those were paintings made for cigar boxes. Of course they are not supposed to be accurate. They are jokes, visions of the future in the same way that Idiocracy is a vision of the future. (Okay, that might be a sensitive topic for some, since there actually are people who do take that movie seriously for some weird reason, including believing its basic premise to have any basis in reality.) Of course Idiocracy reflects some of the beliefs about how we think the future might be, but in the service of creating a fantastical, entertaining and funny picture the image of the future it draws is also deliberately grotesque and weird and as much about the present as it is about what we belief the future to be. I don’t think those paintings are all the different. They should not be taking as a really serious attempt to predict the future, I think.