A 19th-century man awakes in the year 2000 to find society reorganized along rational, egalitarian lines, using the time-displaced observer as a frame for critiquing the reader's present by showing a plausible better future.
One of the most influential utopian novels ever written: directly inspired real-world Bellamy Clubs and socialist movements. Models the technique of using future comparison to critique present injustice.
Domains: Governance and Political SystemsEconomics and Resource AllocationSocial Engineering and Psychology
Scenario Types: Utopian visionPrediction / Extrapolation
Outcomes: UtopianAspirational
Tags: time-skiputopian-comparisonsocial-reformrational-society