Meanwhile, the future

Unabridged, unedited and un-updated.

— The reprinted Usborne Book of the Future (“a view from the 1970s of the year 200 … and beyond”) is a thing of beauty. Aside from a new forward from futurologist Tom Cheesewright, they’ve left it exactly as it was when it was first published in 1979, complete with illustrations from Gordon Davies, Terry Hadley, Brian Lewis, Michael Roffe and George Tho…