En intressant lista på äldre böcker (hundratals år gamla, för det mesta) som
gör förutsägelser om framtiden:
http://listverse.com/2016/05/11/10-intriguing-visions-of-the-future-from-the-past/
Och i alla fall jag har ju inte ens hört talas om de flesta av de här romanerna
tidigare! T ex den första boken i listan:
"One of the first English-language texts to deal with the future was Memoirs of
the Twentieth Century, written by Irish Anglican clergyman Samuel Madden and
published in 1733. He claimed to have had the “honour and misfortune” to “have
dar’d to enter by the help of an infallible Guide, into the dark Caverns of
Futurity, and discover the Secrets of Ages yet to come.”
The book was touted as its subtitle, “Original Letters of State, Under George
the Sixth, Related to the most important Events in Great Britain and Europe . .
. from the Middle of the Eighteenth to the End of the Twentieth Century.
Received and Revealed in the year 1728; and now published . . . in Six
Volumes.” The reference to five nonexistent sequels to the first volume was a
satirical jab at long-winded memoirs of the time.
The book’s format was a series of letters to the British monarch from
ambassadors in foreign capitals in the years 1997 and 1998. There was little in
the way of technological development in Madden’s vision, but there were great
political changes: The Ottoman Empire was replaced by a Tatar dynasty, while
the papacy ruled supreme with rich holdings in Africa, China, and Paraguay. It
also featured interesting elements like a Mexican cheese that never rots,
extant native states in North America, a messianic movement arising in Persia,
and an army of Central African Jews marching on Egypt. However, much of the
material was actually concerned with satirizing 18th-century political and
religious concerns rather than serious speculation."
--Ahrvid
Ps. Siten Listverse har ö h t en massa intressanta "topplistor" kring olika
fenomen. Väl värd att ägna en stund åt.
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