No, this illustration did not predict "life in 2022"

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• According to publications that have gone viral on social networks, an illustration dating from 1962 would represent "life in 2022".

• Making the link with the physical distancing measures taken because of the Covid-19, many Internet users think of a prediction when they see the glass capsules that cover the vehicles in which the protagonists move.

• The drawing actually illustrated the idea of ​​a new means of individual transport which was to solve the problems of traffic jams in cities.

  Without giving a future date.

The sustainability of the physical distancing required across the world to combat the spread of Covid-19 worries some.

How to imagine a near future where everyone would be compartmentalized in an individual bubble?

In any case, this is what illustrator Walter Molino would have anticipated in a drawing dating from 1962, according to publications that have gone viral on social networks.

On September 6, a Facebook page presented the illustration, which depicts citizens parked in narrow vehicles closed with bells, as "a painting called

The post has so far been shared nearly 600 times.

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This image, which has circulated in various countries on social networks in recent months, has misled many Internet users.

Many see it as a premonitory painting or qualify the artist as "visionary", making the link with the barrier gestures to be applied due to the coronavirus epidemic.

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It is not in fact a painting which envisaged, for 2022, a life where individuals would be isolated from each other in the public space.

As the Italian site plurale.net already explained in 2014, the illustration, entitled

, appeared on December 16, 1962 in the weekly

It presented the "Singoletta", a minivan vehicle supposed to solve congestion problems in metropolitan areas, but without mentioning any future date.

Faced with the extent of this false information, the

 even published an article last May.

He comes back to the "" Singoletta "which move in the traffic, illustrated by Walter Molino, [and which] appear" prophetic ".

In a period of coronavirus emergency, this reminds us of the importance of rethinking urban travel, from new public transport rules to cycle paths "".

Here, no reference to any premonition for the year 2022, nor to the isolation of citizens.

Only an idea whose illustration resonates for some with the current health crisis.

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