The Future as Seen from 1978

The Usborne Book of the Future was published in 1978 and envisions the world in the year 2000 “and beyond.”

Some of my favorite predictions include:

– the human-robot space exploration teams,

– military troops transported by rocket and then dispatched via armed “hovercars,”

– these crustacean-like aliens pondering high-tech crystal balls,

– (under the heading 1991-2000) sunlight-reflecting mirrors in space that provide light for the dark side of the earth,

– (under the heading 2001-2050) an “electromagnetic catapult” on the moon used to fling mining materials to “space factories.”