The Future, Past and Present
Unless something really remarkable happens like Armageddon or the England cricket team winning a Test series, as we enter the year 2001 things will stay pretty much as they are: images of Princess Diana will still appear in magazines everywhere, the railways will still use rolling stock built in the sixties, and old men driving cars will still inexplicably wear hats.
But behind the facade of normality the future is taking shape. This entertaining look at the history of futurology describes the world that's yet to come in the fields of medicine, mind, spirit, home, food, work, leisure, politics, war, society, transport, environment and space. 'A Brief History Of Tomorrow' explores a wide range of topics from quantum computers and nano-robots to body transplants and planet creation.
