A Brief History of Tomorrow: the future, past and present by Jonathan
Margolis, Bloomsbury, £14.99, ISBN 0747550875
A FUNNY place, the future—especially as seen through the predictions of
previous generations. And some of the futures described by Jonathan Margolis in
his entertaining A Brief History of Tomorrow are bizarre indeed. For
example, there was Jacob Astor’s idea to create global summer by realigning the
Earth’s axis, or the magazine Popular Mechanics’ vision of a plastic
world where housework would be done with a garden hose.
But, lest we feel superior, consider how odd our own visions will seem to…
