…the future looked like this – the Usborne Book of the Future. My grandma bought me the book when I was about 7 or 8 I think and I remember being engrossed in it for ages and ages.
I really wish I still had a copy. After all, where else can you read that in the Olympics of 2020, the native moonies won’t stand a chance in the 14 Metre lunar high jump because their muscles won’t be as developed as the earth dwellers.
Brilliant stuff. Reminds of the story someone told me the other week (as we were discussing this book) where one of their friends ran outside at the turn of the millenium shouting “Where are they, where are they?” Bemused friends enquired what the heck he was on about, to which he replied “the flying cars, they said they’d be here in the year 2000″.
Funnnnnneee.
This was a brilliant book and I must hunt down a copy. I’m not paying the £77 asking price that someone has it up for on Amazon though. Nope.
Funnily enough, my mate Alan Holding over at MDDA also had it when he was a kid.
Take a look at it and let me know your favourite prediction. “Farming under the sea” perhaps, or space travel on asteroids?
Now, that’s given me an idea for the sool.
-pc.
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