In the year 2889 by Michel Verne and Jules Verne

"In the Year 2889" by Michel Verne and Jules Verne is a short story published in 1889. Set a thousand years in the future, the story follows a powerful media publisher through a single day in September 2889. The tale presents bold predictions about future technology, including video conferences, flying cars, pneumatic tubes crossing oceans, advertisements on clouds, and transmissions from Mars. This speculative glimpse imagines how human civilization might transform over the coming millennium. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Verne, Michel, 1861-1925
Author Verne, Jules, 1828-1905
Title In the year 2889
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Year_2889_(short_story)
Credits Produced by Norm Wolcott
Reading Level Reading ease score: 74.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject Science fiction
Subject Short stories
Category Text
eBook-No. 19362
Release Date
Last Update Jan 1, 2021
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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