The story follows the publisher of a very influential media empire in the year 2889. Ī 1910 reprint included illustrations by George Roux. The story takes place on 25 September 2889. If written by Jules Verne, it would be one of his few short stories, and the only one first written in English. Supposedly, the owner of the New York Herald, James Gordon Bennett, Jr, asked Jules Verne to write a short story projecting what life would look like in a thousand years. The first publication was in English in February 1889, in the American magazine The Forum. In the Year 2889 ( La Journée d’un journaliste américain en 2889 in French) is an 1889 short story published under the name of Jules Verne, but now believed to be mainly the work of his son Michel Verne, based on his father's ideas. Think of the railroads of the olden time, and you will be able to appreciate the pneumatic tubes through which to-day one travels at the rate of 1000 miles an hour.Illustration by G.
Could they but duly appreciate the refinements of civilization in our day could they but compare the present with the past, and so better comprehend the advance we have made! How much fairer they would find our modern towns, with populations amounting sometimes to 10,000,000 souls their streets 300 feet wide, their houses 1000 feet in height with a temperature the same in all seasons with their lines of aërial locomotion crossing the sky in every direction! If they would but picture to themselves the state of things that once existed, when through muddy streets rumbling boxes on wheels, drawn by horses-yes, by horses!-were the only means of conveyance. Surfeited as they are with marvels, they are indifferent in presence of each new marvel. Little though they seem to think of it, the people of this twenty-ninth century live continually in fairyland.
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