WHAT THE FUTURE LOOKED LIKE IN 1900

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Humanity has long sought the ability to predict the future, and to a handful of candy connoisseurs in the height of the Second Industrial Revolution, it never looked brighter. On the cusp of a new century, Hildebrand’s, a then-leading German chocolate company, produced a set of cards depicting the “sweet” life that awaited us in the year 2000.

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