"Refuelling" stations for compressed air were placed around the city, and the monopolistic company supplying the compression was very rich, powerful, and morally dubious. His Paris of 1960 was filled with automobiles powered by compressed air (cars that run on compressed air actually exist today, though they aren't very efficient). Automobiles: About twenty years before the modern car note Automobiles had been around since 1769, but they were basically experiments in its most rudimentary form was invented, Verne predicted not only the widespread use of cars, but also infrastructures built around them.
This attitude probably stems from Verne's early job as a stock broker, which he hated from the bottom of his heart, and which caused his lifelong contempt of Corrupt Corporate Executives and their worldview. Verne imagines the Paris of 1960 as a bleak dystopia where art and creativity are stifled, and cold-hearted pragmatism, logic, commerce, and industrial development are the only things that anyone cares about. Amusingly, one of the reasons his novel was not published for so long is that publishers originally felt his predictions to be too unrealistic.Īs an initially unpublished (and largely unedited) work, the novel is closer to Verne's post- Protection from Editors style than the writings most readers will be familiar with, particularly in regards to its cynicism. Verne did a remarkably good job of predicting the world one hundred years in his future. Verne wrote the novel in 1863, and it is set in the far-off futuristic world of 1960. What makes it very interesting, however, is the accuracy of its many predictions about the future. While a good read, the novel isn't Verne's best.
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