This Image Doesn't Predict 2022 Life
The Claim
An image shows an Italian artist's 1962 depiction of what he imagined the world would look like in 2022.
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Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram users shared an illustration of people driving single-occupancy vehicles claiming it was created by an Italian artist in 1962 to show what he imagined the world would look like in 2022. The image has been shared thousands of times.
The claim was shared in English, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. People claimed that the painting tells about life in 2022 that shows people walking by using a machine covered by a glass protector.
Misbar’s Analysis
Misbar’s reverse image search on Google found the picture in a blog post published in 2014.
The claims circulating are false. The picture was an illustration of “la singoletta”, a one-person transportation mode as imagined by Molino in 1962. The illustration appeared on the back cover of a now-defunct Italian weekly newspaper the Domenica del Corriere on December 16, 1962. The image doesn't allude to the year 2022.
Walter Molino was an Italian artist, considered to be one of the country’s greatest illustrators and cartoonists of the 20th century.
