This is a short novella describing 'a day in the life' of the owner of a company dealing with innovative communications and inventions. Apart from that there is no plot, just the description of some technology in the year 2889.

It is a voyage into the future from the 1880, or should we say a voyage into the present from that past. It is amazing how Verne imagined something very similar to what we now know as the internet and some of its applications.

And it is entertaining from a linguistic point of view; how the author deals with (makes its characters talk about) 21st century science speaking in 18th century English.