Jules Verne lived from 1828 to 1905, and in 1889 he (or possibly his son) not only tried to imagine life in 2889, but put pen to paper, and shared their thoughts in this short story.
“The discovery of nutritive air is still in the future,”
In some portions of the story you can feel the author bound by the ideas of their time — it was the period when novels came out a chapter a time in newspapers before being gathered together and bound as the books we now know. Yet there are other places where he foresees the DVR, a version of Skype, all conveyed in the language and writing style of the 1880s, a juxtaposition that oddly serves to remind the reader that this was written by someone living in an age before computers and televisions, and yet able to imagine, and dream, of such concepts being not only invented, but used in daily life.
So take a moment, perhaps before you read this, or maybe after, and imagine life 2000 years from now. What do you think might be invented? What do you take for granted that you simply see remaining, in some form or another, a part of daily life?
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One day, without any reason whatsoever, the thought of death and sickness came to him. The idea of falling ill or dying made him very wretched.”I should like to live,” he said to himself, “till I am five or six hundred years old at least, free from all sickness. The ordinary span of a man’s life is very short.”
A lot of wonderful animated, and live action for that matter, movies have been made featuring characters and stories “as old as time,” yet when we go in search of the books they come from a different tale is found.
So, for those of us who have not gone back to the well, and encountered 
There are times when we look back on how things were, and we chuckle and wonder how we ever lived that way — and other times we look back with that bit of nostalgic wonder and perhaps a bit of longing. Either way, remembering how things were can give us a bit of perspective on how things are now, but it can also be a great way to escape the every day reality we are currently living with.
A recent movie release has brought a historical event back into the limelight — Dunkirk. To some this aspect of World War II may be a new revelation, to others it may be a fascinating piece of the story of World War II they are delighted to see getting some big screen attention. Either way, for many, as they leave the theater, there may be a desire to either know more, or experience more. Thankfully, we have BOOKS.
If you came out of the theater wanting more Dunkirk, more World War II fiction… simply… more… perhaps consider 
There is, quite genuinely, no limit to the amazing things books can do, and places they can take us. Here is a book that truly allows the reader to time travel, transporting us back in time to 2005, and Hurricane Katrina.