{"id":31025,"date":"2020-06-10T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T16:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathewingram.blog\/?p=31025"},"modified":"2024-01-04T17:26:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T17:26:57","slug":"jules-verne-predicted-cars-fax-machines-and-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2020\/06\/10\/jules-verne-predicted-cars-fax-machines-and-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Jules Verne predicted cars, fax machines and the internet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a novel he wrote in 1863, entitled &#8220;Paris In The Twentieth Century,&#8221; science-fiction pioneer Jules Verne <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paris_in_the_Twentieth_Century\">described a city with a network of electric lights<\/a>, gas-powered automobiles, wind power, machines that transmit text and photos across long distances, high-speed trains that run on magnetic levitation, and computerized weapon systems. The central character of the story is Michel Dufr\u00e9noy, who graduates in 1960 with a major in literature and the classics, but finds they have been forgotten in a futuristic world where only business and technology are valued (he eventually dies after a famine and nuclear winter-style disaster wipes out most of France). Verne&#8217;s publisher refused to publish the book because he thought it was too dystopian and would ruin the author&#8217;s career, and the writer locked it in a safe, where it was forgotten until one of Verne&#8217;s great-grandsons found it. It was eventually published in 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/localhost\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-43-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-257917\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-43-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-43-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-43-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-43-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-43-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-43.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a novel he wrote in 1863, entitled &#8220;Paris In The Twentieth Century,&#8221; science-fiction pioneer Jules Verne described a city with a network of electric lights, gas-powered automobiles, wind power, machines that transmit text and photos across long distances, high-speed trains that run on magnetic levitation, and computerized weapon systems. The central character of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2020\/06\/10\/jules-verne-predicted-cars-fax-machines-and-the-internet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jules Verne predicted cars, fax machines and the internet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31025"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257918,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31025\/revisions\/257918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}