While almost all of science fiction is a direct comment of the time in which it was created more so than a prediction of the future, paleo-futurism is more often a direct prediction of the future. This image of “advertising in the near future,” while not science fiction, is clearly more a comment on the period in which it was published.
The image is from an 1885 issue of Puck magazine but can also be found in the 1956 book Predictions by John Durant.
See also:
Picturesque America (1909)
