{"id":2212,"date":"2023-02-26T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.misterolsen.com\/?p=2212"},"modified":"2026-02-08T17:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T17:08:12","slug":"o-seculo-20-de-albert-robida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.misterolsen.com\/en\/o-seculo-20-de-albert-robida\/","title":{"rendered":"The 20th Century by Albert Robida"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:23px\"><em>In 1893, Albert Robida published &quot;Le Vingti\u00e8me Si\u00e8cle. La vie \u00e9lectrique,&quot; imagining France in 1952. Amidst flying airplanes and biological warfare, he predicted something extraordinary: virtual social networks through the &quot;telephonoscope.&quot; It took 130 years, but he was right.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"348\" height=\"850\" src=\"https:\/\/www.misterolsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/00-Casino.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.misterolsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/00-Casino.webp 348w, https:\/\/www.misterolsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/00-Casino-123x300.webp 123w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 348px) 100vw, 348px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>There is a peculiar moment in Albert Robida&#039;s futuristic novel in which the entire European power grid collapses during a storm. The &quot;telephonoscopes&quot;\u2014devices that combined telephone, television, and videoconferencing\u2014begin transmitting random communications, crossing paths with lives that should never have met.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was by this meteorological accident that Georges Lorris, a young Parisian engineer, appeared on the screen of Estelle Lacombe, an engineering student isolated in an alpine lighthouse station a thousand meters high. She was terrified by the storm, alone. He tried to calm her down. They started talking. They fell in love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1893, Albert Robida imagined this. He called it &quot;Le Vingti\u00e8me Si\u00e8cle. La vie \u00e9lectrique&quot; \u2014 the twentieth century, electric life. It was his projection of French society in the year 1952.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Civilizational Laboratory of the 19th Century<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Robida was not alone in these speculations. The 19th century was a fertile laboratory of technological utopias. Jules Verne (1828\u20131905) gained lasting fame with submarines and trips to the Moon. But there were other, lesser-known visionaries who, in their own way, attempted to decipher the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"567\" height=\"767\" src=\"https:\/\/www.misterolsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/01-Albert-Robida-opti.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.misterolsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/01-Albert-Robida-opti.webp 567w, https:\/\/www.misterolsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/01-Albert-Robida-opti-222x300.webp 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photograph by Albert Robida.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gallica.bnf.fr\/ark:\/12148\/bpt6k98168331\/f649.image\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gallica. Biblioth\u00e8que National de France<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"564\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.misterolsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/02-Jules_Verne_Ecrivain-opti.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.misterolsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/02-Jules_Verne_Ecrivain-opti.webp 564w, https:\/\/www.misterolsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/02-Jules_Verne_Ecrivain-opti-226x300.webp 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Photograph by Jules Verne.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bnf.fr\/fr\/jules-verne-ressources-en-ligne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gallica. Biblioth\u00e8que National de France<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Albert Robida (1848\u20131926), a French illustrator of considerable talent, dedicated himself to \u201cspeculative fiction\u201d\u2014the term we use today to describe these attempts to imagine alternative worlds. Unlike Verne, who focused on extraordinary adventures, Robida was interested in everyday life: how would ordinary people live in the future? How would they work, communicate, love?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Robida, the answer began with electricity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Electric Life of 1952<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In Robida&#039;s vision, everything depended on electricity. &quot;Aerocabs&quot;\u2014flying taxis\u2014crisped through the skies of Paris guided by headlights. &quot;Tubes&quot;\u2014proto-hyperloops\u2014connected major European cities at fabulous speeds. The Sahara Desert, fertilized by electrical systems, flourished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"850\" src=\"https:\/\/www.misterolsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/00-Farol-opti-1.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.misterolsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/00-Farol-opti-1.webp 525w, https:\/\/www.misterolsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/00-Farol-opti-1-185x300.webp 185w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"850\" src=\"https:\/\/www.misterolsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/04-Tubos-opti.webp\" alt=\"Tubos\" class=\"wp-image-2224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.misterolsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/04-Tubos-opti.webp 525w, https:\/\/www.misterolsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/04-Tubos-opti-185x300.webp 185w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"850\" src=\"https:\/\/www.misterolsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/05-VidaQuotidiana.webp\" alt=\"Vida quotidiana\" class=\"wp-image-2226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.misterolsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/05-VidaQuotidiana.webp 525w, https:\/\/www.misterolsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/05-VidaQuotidiana-185x300.webp 185w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>But the most remarkable application of electricity was in the &quot;telephonoscope&quot;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This multifaceted device combined the recent inventions of the telephone (1876) and the phonograph (1877), adding image transmission. It allowed for video conferencing, distance learning, and remote commerce. People could &quot;visit&quot; each other without leaving home, watch live-streamed shows, and shop by viewing products on a screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Robida essentially envisioned Zoom, YouTube, and e-commerce. In 1893.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"753\" src=\"https:\/\/www.misterolsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/07-telephonoscope.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.misterolsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/07-telephonoscope.webp 850w, https:\/\/www.misterolsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/07-telephonoscope-600x532.webp 600w, https:\/\/www.misterolsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/07-telephonoscope-300x266.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.misterolsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/07-telephonoscope-768x680.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"753\" src=\"https:\/\/www.misterolsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/08-telephonoscope.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.misterolsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/08-telephonoscope.webp 850w, https:\/\/www.misterolsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/08-telephonoscope-600x532.webp 600w, https:\/\/www.misterolsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/08-telephonoscope-300x266.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.misterolsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/08-telephonoscope-768x680.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Accidental Romance<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#039;s return to Georges and Estelle. Their story illustrates how Robida understood that technology doesn&#039;t exist in a vacuum\u2014it exists in human lives, with their chance occurrences and complications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Georges Lorris was the son of Philox Lorris, a celebrated scientist. He lived in Paris and worked in his father&#039;s laboratory. Estelle Lacombe lived in Lauterbrunnen-Station, Switzerland, at an alpine lighthouse station run by her father. Her mother, a Parisian exile at the time, would seize any opportunity to catch a flight or a plane back to Paris\u2014an afternoon of shopping, dinner with friends, speculation on the stock market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"691\" height=\"850\" src=\"https:\/\/www.misterolsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/09-Lorris-opti.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.misterolsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/09-Lorris-opti.webp 691w, https:\/\/www.misterolsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/09-Lorris-opti-600x738.webp 600w, https:\/\/www.misterolsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/09-Lorris-opti-244x300.webp 244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Estelle was preparing for her engineering exams for the third time. She studied using phonographs and followed courses broadcast via telephonoscope. But the antiquated regulations didn&#039;t allow her to take the exams remotely. She had to appear in person. Her shyness was hindering her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the storm disrupted their communications, Georges offered to send her his father&#039;s notes. They began to speak regularly. He was impressed by her intelligence, by the grace of her gestures as seen on the screen. She admired him without daring to admit it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Robida was describing a long-distance relationship mediated by technology. He was imagining how people would meet, work, and love through screens. One hundred and thirty years before Tinder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Visionary Elements<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There are aspects of Robida&#039;s work that impress with their precision. Beyond the telephonoscope, he imagined:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Remote work<\/strong>Estelle studied at home, following courses broadcast from Zurich and Paris. The examiners could see dozens of students simultaneously through their telephonoscopes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Distance commerce<\/strong>Madame Lacombe could see fabrics and clothes transmitted by Parisian shops, but she preferred\u2014in a shrewd psychological trait\u2014to go there in person. Robida realized that technology does not necessarily eliminate the desire for the physical.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Women&#039;s emancipation<\/strong>Despite the conservatism of the time, Robida envisioned women engineers with professional careers and higher education. Estelle was destined to join the administration of the Alpine Lighthouses, with a guaranteed salary and career progression. Robida even mentions common-law unions and cohabitation without marriage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Infrastructure networks<\/strong>His understanding that the future depended on complex networks\u2014electrical, communication, transportation\u2014was remarkable. When a storm damaged the wires, the whole society collapsed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Failed Elements<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>But Robida also made mistakes, in revealing ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his imagination, war would be peculiar. Biological weapons calibrated to spare &quot;men in the prime of their strength and health&quot; and target only &quot;the infirm, the weak, the diseased.&quot; There is an almost comical innocence here. Two world wars\u20141914\u20131918 and 1939\u20131945\u2014would demonstrate that modern warfare does not discriminate based on health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His illustrations depict regiments of soldiers on bicycles with spears at the ready, like Greek phalanxes. Infantry in armor. Robida romanticized war even while projecting it into the technological future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then there was medicinal electricity. Robida, like many of his contemporaries, believed that &quot;electric fluid&quot; had therapeutic powers when applied to the human body. It was a widespread belief at the time, now completely discredited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Unlikely Success<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>What makes Robida fascinating is not the mistakes \u2014 any futurist makes mistakes \u2014 but the improbable successes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He understood that remote visual communication would transform human relationships. That distance learning would be viable. That commerce would migrate to remote formats. That people would work, study, and socialize through screens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He imagined, at a time when the telephone was seventeen years old and electricity was just beginning to illuminate homes, a world entirely dependent on instant visual communication networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It took 130 years. But it happened. During the 2020 pandemic, when millions of people worked remotely, studied via video conference, and dated through screens, we lived in Robida&#039;s world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Fragility of Predictions<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#039;s a lesson here about futurism. Robida was right about communication technologies, but wrong about war. He imagined flying planes\u2014and he was right\u2014but designed them with absurd shapes. He predicted female emancipation, but maintained paternalistic treatment of women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He correctly perceived that electricity would be central\u2014he was right. But he imagined it as a healing force\u2014he was wrong. He understood that communication networks would transform society\u2014absolutely right. But he imagined they would serve primarily for entertainment and commerce, not for political manipulation and mass disinformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The future always proves to be more complex, more contradictory, more strange than any prediction. But there is something moving in the attempts. Robida, with his telephonoscopes and aerocabs, tried to imagine how his grandchildren would live. He was wrong a lot. He got some fundamental things right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And Georges and Estelle, separated by mountains but united by a screen, fell in love through a technology that didn&#039;t yet exist\u2014they exist now, by the millions, in our video calls and messages, in our relationships mediated by technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Robida envisioned them first. In 1893, when the world still walked and was illuminated by gaslight, he saw our future. Not all of it. But enough to make us think: what are we failing to see in our own future? And what visionary, somewhere, is right now correctly imagining the world of our grandchildren?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1893, Albert Robida published &quot;Le Vingti\u00e8me Si\u00e8cle. La vie \u00e9lectrique,&quot; imagining France in 1952. Amidst flying airplanes and biological warfare, he predicted something extraordinary: virtual social networks through the &quot;telephonoscope.&quot; It took 130 years, but he was right.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAow5pSfDA:productID":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-retrohut"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>O S\u00e9culo 20 de Albert Robida | Mister Olsen<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.misterolsen.com\/en\/o-seculo-20-de-albert-robida\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"O S\u00e9culo 20 de Albert Robida | Mister Olsen\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Em 1893, Albert Robida publicou \u201cLe Vingti\u00e8me Si\u00e8cle. 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