THE main problem with writing about the future is that it hasn’t happened yet. As a popular science genre, it is necessarily speculative, and for an author it can be dangerous ground. Say too much and your vision is dismissed as improbable. Say too little and you will be accused of having no more of a clue about the future than anyone else.
British science writer Michael Hanlon is the latest to venture into this territory, and has some thought-provoking moments. For instance, linguists believe that humans may speak only a couple of languages…
