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''Paris in the Twentieth Century'' was one of the first science-fiction novels written by [[Jules Verne]], but the last to be published -- in ''1994'', after lying forgotten in a safe for over a hundred and twenty-five years.
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* The electric chair: Used to underscore the point of how de-humanizing and cruel technology had become.
* The Internet and the telecommunications revolution: The novel describes calculating machines that can send information to each other remotely to help companies conduct business over great distances. Fax machines (as "picture-telegraphs") are also described, and in general it's made clear that instant long-range communication is very important to the business of Verne's 1960s Paris.
* Modern architecture: The Paris of Verne's 1960 was a skyscraper-filled, modern city. In real life, very few skyscrapers would be built in the city proper (though [
* Modern security systems: In one scene, the protagonist accidentally sets off an automatic security system in a bank.
* Warfare: Less accurately, Verne predicted that the application of overwhelming technology to warfare would inevitably lead to world peace. Unfortunately this clearly hasn't come true... But on the other hand, the basic idea of [[Mutually Assured Destruction]] seems similar. And Verne's prediction that technology would make war impersonal, with soldiers killing remotely by operating the controls of machines, is more accurate now than ever.
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