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Jules Verne's Crystal Ball;Long-Lost Novel Foresaw The City of Headlights
From: The Washington Post
Date: 19940924
Author:William Drozdiak
The year was 1863, and Jules Verne decided to take a break from writing popular adventure tales to try his hand at prophecy.
He peered a century into the future and saw the streets of Paris jammed with automobiles. He also envisioned mass transit systems, the electric chair, even the fax machine. Yet his glimpse of the modern world was bleak and morose, depicting a society run by bureaucrats and philistines who trample classical culture in their frenzied pursuit of money, technology and power.
Verne's publisher, Pierre-Jules Hetzel, took one look at "Paris in the 20th Century" and advised ...
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