
In the year 2889
by Michel Verne and Jules Verne
- Reading level
- Plain English
- Price
- Free
About the book
"In the Year 2889" by Michel Verne and Jules Verne is a short story published in 1889. Set a thousand years in the future, the story follows a powerful media publisher through a single day in September 2889. The tale presents bold predictions about future technology, including video conferences, flying cars, pneumatic tubes crossing oceans, advertisements on clouds, and transmissions from Mars. This speculative glimpse imagines how human civilization might transform over the coming millennium.
- Science fiction
- Short stories
Updated September 2026. Public domain in the USA. Text and summary from Project Gutenberg eBook #19362. In the year 2889 on Wikipedia.