the frence write jules verne wrote several books in the late 1800s. In them, he wrote about the future. He asked, "what will life be like at the end of the 20th century-one hundred years from now?" in one of his adventure novels (From the earth to the moon), his characters traveled to the moon in a rocket. In a submarine in the shape of a whale. In a novel title Paris in the Twentieth Century, Verne described a city with skyscrapers of glass and steel, high-speed trains, gas-powered automobiles, and a global communications netwerk. Space rockets and submarines and other thing in his novels didn't exist in Verne's time, but many of the inventions that Vernei imagined became reality by the end of 1900s. That's why people call Verne a visionary.