Technology and Progress in Jules Verne, or Anticipation in Reverse

Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions

“…The French writer Jules Verne (1828Verne ( -1905 is definitely one of these people (Unwin 2000;Evans 2013). With his numerous novels, among them, notably, From the Earth to the Moon (first published in 1865) and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (first published in 1870), he is said to have anticipated technological developments long before they materialized.…”