An illustration that describes how they imagined the society of 2022!

Culture of a futuristic past

The illustration belongs to the Italian seminar “Domenica Del Corriere, which published it in its extensive circulation in 1962. The author, Walter Molino, was born in 1915 and died in 1997. Men and women on encapsulated motorcycles, totally isolated from any physical contact with other people. Close to the current reality.

It is not the first time that the fiction of the past is correct or close to the reality of the present. On this occasion, this illustration published in 1962 by the Italian weekly "Domenica Del Corriere" shows how they imagined society in 2022. Walter Molino, passed away in 1997, did not get to see the enormous technological advance that is quite close to what , once, he thought it was pure fantasy of his.

It is fictional art that can come true. It has already happened and will continue to happen. Different eras merge between what was believed unreal with what, finally, materializes. This is the case of this simple illustration published in 1962 by the Italian seminary "Domenica Del Corriere" and which was intended solely to entertain its readers with images painted by artists that had nothing to do with the reality of the time.

For the society of those 60s, especially in European Italy - which was beginning to leave behind the destruction and cultural, social and economic changes caused by the Second World War - the idea of ??people circulating in small vehicles with glass domes was just a mere unreal question. For this reason, the publication of Walter Molino did not mean more than the imaginary art of an author who used to his followers to see paintings that differentiated him from his peers.

Finally, that fictitious image is getting closer and closer to becoming a true reality. Especially in these times of changes in the social paradigm and the imminent mass launch of electric vehicles of all sizes. They say, the intellectual eunuchs, that from saying to fact there is a long way, and in this case, there is a long way of almost 60 years.

Publication Date: 2020-07-16

Source: Diario21.tv