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.”