{"product_id":"2940013989627","title":"In The Year 2889","description":"In the Year 2889 was first published in the Forum, February, 1889. It was published in France the next year. Although published under the name of Jules Verne, it is now believed to be chiefly if not entirely the work of Jules Verne's son, Michel Verne. In any event, many of the topics in the article echo Jules Verne's ideas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExcerpt:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis, too, is one of Mr. Fritz Napoleon Smith's ideas, and in the Earth Chronicle building a thousand projectors are constantly engaged in displaying upon the clouds these mammoth advertisements.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Mr. Smith to-day entered the sky-advertising department, he found the operators sitting with folded arms at their motionless projectors, and inquired as to the cause of their inaction. In response, the man addressed simply pointed to the sky, which was of a pure blue. \"Yes,\" muttered Mr. Smith, \"a cloudless sky! That's too bad, but what's to be done? Shall we produce rain? That we might do, but is it of any use? What we need is clouds, not rain. Go,\" said he, addressing the head engineer, \"go see Mr. Samuel Mark, of the meteorological division of the scientific department, and tell him for me to go to work in earnest on the question of artificial clouds.","brand":"Sheba Blake Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47166549164272,"sku":"2940013989627","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013989627_p0.jpg?v=1763598530","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013989627","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}