Living in the future

Love this. The comments are almost as good as the book itself. From http://2010book.tumblr.com

2010: Living In the Future | the book

Back when I was a boy, I bought a children's book at my town's library book sale called "2010: Living in the Future" by Geoffrey Hoyle. Written in 1972, it had been withdrawn from the library's collection by the mid-80s, when I picked it up. I've somehow managed to hang onto it for 25 years and now, suddenly, here we are: 2010. I'm reproducing this long out-of-print book here to see how we're doing. Are we really living in the future? | a project by Daniel Sinker

One of my favourite quotes is this (emphasis added):

When you have bought your groceries, you must pay for them. The bill appears on the vision desk below the vision phone. It is important to check the bill because computers can make mistakes.

Gotta love the irony of that statement in a book where the entire house - especially the cooking - has been computerised.