Looking Backward

A recent Times editorial, wondering whether we are already into a change of human society rather than some kind of a deep financial recession made reference to a novel published in 1897. I bought it on Amazon and am now half way through Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy. This is one of the most intriguing reads I've come across.

Basically the narrator falls into a mesmeric sleep in a secure place, waking up 103 years later - in fact in the year 2000. So here is Bellamy's sense of how life i...