Did this 19th-century novel predict Amazon and Spotify? @ForesightInstitute
Did this 19th-century novel predict Amazon and Spotify?  @ForesightInstitute
Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Elle Griffin shares her three favorite utopian novels from the 19th century. She explores the contrast between “Looking Backward: 2000-1887” by Edward Bellamy, with its tech-heavy future and inventions that sound eerily similar to Amazon and Spotify, “News from Nowhere” by William Morris, where everyone is an artist, and “Herland” by Charlotte Perkins, with its women-only collectivism.

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