Fifty Years Hence (Winston Churchill, 1931)

I used to look at the world and think those civilizations are dead and gone, these days I think I am probably wrong...not that I rely on a statistical approach any more than PKD's VALIS. It's probably more a belief in the Faulknarian Past from many years living in the American South.

Here, I think Churchill is guilty of Heinlein's Every generation thinks it invented sex. The Soviets are but a handful-of-pharohs blip on the timeline of Egypt.