In 1902, the visionary Jules Verne said he didn't think novels would exist in 50 or 100 years.

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"That market didn't exist for us before, " he says.

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Mr. King, the education commissioner, said he realized it was difficult to train people on an evaluation system that didn't yet exist.

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