I'm not usually one for sci-fi books, but since this is such a short story and I had some time on my hands... Simply said: why the hell not?

First of all I should say that I think the world mister Verne imagined we will live in almost 900 years from now has some really believable elements that I think could just be realized.

On the other hand there are some things that I find a bit weird, like the telephone-newspaper? I mean, sure, there weren't any tablets yet in 1889, but wouldn't a little device on which you could read the newspaper or just the articles you liked be way more efficient than a huge hall of reporters answering calls from people all day? Where do they find the time to actually make their reports if they have to be on the phone 24/7? It strange to imagine such things were inimaginable, even for the likes of Jules Verne, just over a hundred years ago.

Secondly, there really was no story to it. We were just taken on this small tour of the future, following this man who hardly sleeps and is practically married to his work, and that's it.

I might be alone in this, but a short story without a storyline just doesn't do much for me.