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In the Year 2889
Jules Verne and Michel Verne
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A short story that tells us how the future looks like by selecting a random date in the year 2889, and follows the details of the day of one Fritz Napolean Smith
A short story that tells us how the future looks like by selecting a random date in the year 2889, and follows the details of the day of one Fritz Napolean Smith
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Yes, all these wonders have been wrought by the accumulator and the transformer. And can we not to them also trace, indirectly, this latest wonder of all, the great "Earth Chronicle" building in 253d Avenue, which was dedicated the other day? If George Washington Smith, the founder of the Manhattan "Chronicle", should come back to life to-day, what would he think were he to be told that this palace of marble and gold belongs to his remote descendant, Fritz Napoleon Smith, who, after thirty generations have come and gone, is owner of the same newspaper which his ancestor established!
For George Washington Smith's newspaper has lived gen. . . Read More
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القصة لا تحتوى هدفا محددا أو مغزى جميل . الترجمة واضحة و إن كانت تخلو من أى أسلوب أدبى ولكنى شاكر جدا لتوافر نسخة باللغة العربية .
تم نشر هذه القصة القصيرة فى فبراير 1889 وتظهر فيها عبقرية وخيال جولز فيرن واطلاعه على العلوم الحديثة وبذلك استحق مكانته بين رواد أدب الخيال العلمى. وهذه بعض ما تنبأ /
این داستان همچنین با پیشرفتهای اخیر داستان های علمی تخیلی وی که بنیانش را گذاشت فرق زیادی دارد.یک نویسنده معاصر مطمئنا توضیحاتی درمورد تغییرات بزرگ و ناگهانی در زمین که ورن از آن سخن میگوید ،می داد و احتمالا آن را به نتایج نامعلوم انفجار اتمی نسبت می داد.همچنین تکامل بیولوژیکی ای که ورن به آن اشاره
You just have to admire Jules Verne for his earily good predictions of the future... In this novella, amongst other things, he predicts the existance of videophone and global news coverage by a form of on-demand and live television.
It's quite mindblowing how right he's got it, except for the timeli
Rating: 3.0/5.0
A short novella that should be appreciated for its future predictions! This was published in 1889 and talks about the world in 2889, means it was predicting what will happen 1000 years from that time. Some of those predictions we have them today under different names like the internet