This is a short book I recommend to everyone. 70 pages, 1909 and it still feels futuristic. He predicts commercial flight, the internet (Spotify, Skype, podcasting). Remember that this is before the popularization of radio.
The beauty of his language is in the abstract representations of technology. This is what makes the ideas behind it continually relevant and futuristic to this day.
The most philosophically profound ideas in it presage Baudrillard's conception of hyperreality.
The beauty of his language is in the abstract representations of technology. This is what makes the ideas behind it continually relevant and futuristic to this day.
The most philosophically profound ideas in it presage Baudrillard's conception of hyperreality.