@cstross

I collect old books that try to predict the future.

My favorite prediction was:

"We will irrigate the Sahara desert by blasting irrigation channels into it with nuclear weapons!"

I expect you’ve both skimmed the incredibly terrible one by one of the Astors

Tilting the axis of the Earth, really awful public transit, and big game hunting in the jungles of Jupiter

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1607

@juergen_hubert @cstross

A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future by John Jacob Astor

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