Book cover is white and red with retro design.
Inside spread pages 6 and 7 with title 'providing with a power-hungry planet'. Illustrations of structures underwater, and helicopters.
Inside spread pages 68 and 69 titled 'from floating log into space shuttle' shows a timeline of transport.
Inside spread pages 74-75 titled 'tomorrow trains' shows an illustration of a 'supertube under the ground'.
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Book of the Future

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A reissue of the much-loved classic 1979 book about future life and future technology. 

The Usborne Book of the Future is a fondly-remembered book from a time when 
people dreamed of the future as a place filled with wonder and amazing new technology. After more than
40 years of science fiction focusing on dystopias and doom, it's time to remind readers young and old that, in fact, the Future is STILL a place that holds hope and excitement.

The book is built in three sections. The first explores all kinds of robots, the jobs they will do onland, sea and in space, and where they will get power from. The second is all about cities of the future, and how people will live, what new buildings they will build,
how computers will change the world, and what people will do for fun. The final section is about the future of travel, from planes, trains and cars on Earth, to Space shuttles and journeys to colonise other planets.

From outlining the internet to asteroid mines to 3Dprinters and robot helpers, you'll be
 surprised by how accurately this book predicted life in the 21st Century.

Features:

  • Foreword by futurologist & former BBC technology correspondent, Tom Cheesewright
  • Recommended 10+

Additional Information: 

  • Author: David Jefferis, Kenneth Gatland
  • Illustrator: Gordon Davies, Terry Hadler, Michael Roffe, George Thompson
  • 96 page hardback 
  • 276 x 216 mm 
  • Publisher: Usborne