In the Year 2889

I have to agree with @ana@bookrastinating.com This short story is describing a day in the life of the owner of a newspaper (Which sounds more like a large company, Google, Microsoft, Amazon all come to mind). There really is no plot to the story, it's more of a look in to the far future. I feel that at least on some level the author is describing life in our times, and in other ways - it's more Futurama style living. And with that I'll leave it, 3 stars. Not a long story, but one that didn't really seem to have a point either.

This is a short novella describing 'a day in the life' of the owner of a company dealing with innovative communications and inventions. Apart from that there is no plot, just the description of some technology in the year 2889.

It is a voyage into the future from the 1880, or should we say a voyage into the present from that past. It is amazing how Verne imagined something very similar to what we now know as the internet and some of its applications.

And it is entertaining from a linguistic point of view; how the author deals with (makes its characters talk about) 21st century science speaking in 18th century English.