In the year 2000! (predictions from 1901)

[Red_October_7000]

Originally Posted by Caddy Man

The automobile, fax machine, phone, and camera "well established" in 1901? I think thats pushing it.

The first photographs were taken in the 1820s by Frenchman Nicéphore Niépce. I'd say 80 years was quite a while.
The Benz Motorwagen dates to 1885. While 16 years isn't that long, it was certainly long enough for effective automobiles to be developed. Steam-powered "cars" of one sort or another stretch back to the 1700s, so self-propelled vehicles were by no means a new technology and it was only right to assume that powerplants would continue to get more powerful as time went by.
Bell's telephone was perfected in 1876 -the year of his famous "Watson, come here, I need you" statement to his assistant. The modern digital camera hasn't had 25 years to develop.
A Scotch fellow patented the first facsimile machine in the 1850s. Practical demonstration happened only a few years later. Yes, the fax machine predates the telephone! So while such technologies were not necessarily in common use (though most were) in 1901, they were definitely around to be studied and developed!

[My_favorite_Brougham]

Back then I think electric cars were the trend (easy start and smooth ride), so technology was ahead of its time. As for those tubes, I wonder if by the year 3000, we'll have 'em large enough to send humans. Kinda like Futurama or those tube cars you see in movies like iRobot or the Polar Express.

[Jesda]

City delivery trucks were mostly electric back then. They could go out, do their rounds, and return to base and charge before going out again.

[Brett]

As we see in Futurama, pneumatic tubes catch on again 1000 years from now...except they transport people, not letters