"Mellonta Tauta" by Edgar Allan Poe

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This story is a weird mix of failure of imagination (still using balloons to travel a thousand years into the future), of very insightful imagination, and knowledge of science and arts that feels surprising for his having written this in 1850.

To follow along: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2150/2150-h/2150-h.htm#chap4.12