Robert Grimshaw 1 hr 7 min read

An 1892 prophet, using an 'improved graphical method,' forecasts for his children the world of 1943, half a century into a future he would never see.

Robert Grimshaw's 1892 book is an earnest work of technological and social prediction, extrapolating the trends of its day toward the mid-twentieth century. Fascinating, wide-ranging period futurism. Read it for a Victorian's confident graph-driven guesses about our recent past, a time capsule of Gilded Age foresight.

In its time

Published in 1892, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

1 hr 7 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).