Dr. Dioscorides 1 hr 15 min read

A Dutch physician's popular forecast of the year 2070, dished up afresh a second time for new guests at the table of the future.

'Dr. Dioscorides' (Pieter Harting) offers this 1870 vision of the coming two centuries, technology, society, and progress imagined from the mid-Victorian Netherlands, so successful that early printings sold out in months. A lively, cultivated utopian forecast in the tradition Jules Verne and Bellamy shared. Read it for a Dutch scientist's genial, well-informed guess at the shape of 2070.

In its time

Published in 1870, during the 1870s, under the sea and around the moon.

Reading it

1 hr 15 min read (a novella, a full arc in one sitting or two).