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"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."
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![]() In this famous 19th century utopian novel, aristocrat John West suffers from insomnia. He consults a memsmerist (hypnotist) and sleeps until the year 2000. He finds many wonders there, among them a vast number of shops all under one roof.
This is an amazing prediction of the rise of stores like Walmart. A proposed Walmart (in California) was recently turned down for exactly the same economic causes cited in the above passage.
Thanks to the miracle of copyright laws, you can read this classic online - see Looking Backward. Thanks to Carl Anderson for pointing this one out. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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