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A review by ninj
In the Year 2889 by Jules Verne
4.0
An interesting look at the year 2889 in this short story by Jules Verne - or more likely, his son.
It presents a glimpse of a future a thousand years beyond the story's origin via one day in the life of the editor of the Earth Chronicle: Mr. Fritz Napoleon Smith, the man who "originated telephonic journalism". Mostly, of course, the predictions are quite conservative (in a thousand years, improvements include advances in "the mean of human life from 37 up to 52 years").
It presents a glimpse of a future a thousand years beyond the story's origin via one day in the life of the editor of the Earth Chronicle: Mr. Fritz Napoleon Smith, the man who "originated telephonic journalism". Mostly, of course, the predictions are quite conservative (in a thousand years, improvements include advances in "the mean of human life from 37 up to 52 years").