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This title reveals the origins of modern marvels, from air travel to genetic engineering. Highly illustrated, the book depicts some of the more outlandish predictions being made today about tomorrow.
Author Notes
Clive Gifford is a highly experienced journalist and author with over 170 books published and more than 800 features and stories written for adults and children. Clive is an unique author who likes to work in both fiction and non-fiction. Perhaps this reflects his unusual life which, so far, has seen him travel to over 70 countries, be held hostage in Colombia, go parachuting, coach several sports and run a computer games company. His title,The Official Rugby World Cup 2015 Fact File, made The New Zealand Best Seller List.
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Reviews (2)
School Library Journal Review
Gr 5-8-An exciting journey through future possibilities, organized around the topics of cities and homes, transportation, work and play, and health issues. Dramatically graphic, each of the four major sections begins with an introduction and a soaring, abbreviated time line superimposed against an appropriate backdrop. Each two-page spread is devoted to a subtopic (future homes, ferrying people and goods, future learning, genetic engineering, and so forth) in a well-balanced, colorful collage of text, photos, graphics, inserts, and predictions. Although the text overwhelmingly anticipates positive and productive technologies, numerous environmental, health, and equity issues are raised as well. Problems of water and waste, controversial genetic practices, and equitable access to medical and leisure technologies receive particular emphasis. The book concludes with an interesting one-page glossary, as well as lists of recommended Web sites and science centers to visit (including the wonderful Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley, CA, but oddly omitting the magnificent Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago). The lack of a bibliography is troubling. Readers are apt to take at face value the many predictions, most of which are presented as foregone conclusions, but without any supporting references. Nonetheless, students will be most interested in thumbing their way through this visually appealing book and might be spurred on to ask substantive questions.-Mary R. Hofmann, Rivera Middle School, Merced, CA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Booklist Review
Gr. 4^-6. This survey of how science may change our lives in the next half century or so combines montages of photographs and painted, futuristic scenes with bite-size prognostications: "A robot vacuum cleaner will automatically detect and clean up spills." Gifford considers possible developments in transportation, education, recreational activities, and biotechnology. Many of his predictions are safely vague, and he covers his bets, for instance, by claiming on one spread that cities will continue to grow but suggesting on the next that urbanites will flee the "rat race" at an increasing clip. Up the road a few decades this will almost certainly be good for a laugh, but now, paired with other volumes in the How the Future Began series, Gifford's enticing visions will engage the imaginations of young dreamers. Listings of Web sites and science museums are appended. --John Peters