There is in the story a relatively very small number of inventions to which we don't yet have an analogue (advertisements projected on clouds in the sky being a - particularly undesirable - example). In fact, we have already invented better versions of most of the things mentioned in the story. The way that in 1889 Verne imagined the world of 2889 would be like seems to us today not particularly advanced. Having said this it must be clear why I haven't given the story a lower rating - it is because for the kind of work it is, it just doesn't make sense to compare it to a fully fledged work of fiction, it must be evaluated by other standards. To be certain, the story isn't set out to be anything like a fully fledged work of fiction, or an ambitious or too elaborate picture of the world in 2889 - it is just a hasty sketch, a quick snapshot of a particular view of the future that the author entertained, as if during a short break from doing something else. It must be the first sci-fi story that I found particularly unimpressive.
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