From Wikipedia: Georges Méliès (8 December 1861 -- 21 January 1938) was a French illusionist and filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema.
I'm 42, so these people would be my great-grandparents' generation. Wow - the concept of relativity can be so humbling. Imagine if young people in the year 2103 were to see film of some of us alive now!
i feel you but am i jaded asf to think that humanity might well have wiped itself out by then? In some ways a lot of the technology we have now is just am extension of Victorian ideas, yet i guess they couldn't have imagined the full impact and extent of the changes that would occur as a result, despite having quite an imagination. For better and for worse.
