2011 Living in the Future

基本信息

出版社: DARLING & CO (2010年11月1日) 精裝: 64頁
正文語種: 英語
ISBN: 1595834303
條形碼: 9781595834300
ASIN: 1595834303

內容簡介

Originally published in 1972, 2011Living in the Future wondered how we would live in the 2000's.This optimistic book is both whimsical and nostalgic, inspiring and disappointing.Where are those jet-packs? In Geoffrey Hoyle’s book 2011: Living in the Future in the far-off year 2011, we'll all do our work, attend school and read library books on ingenious video screens that can connect to each other from anywhere around the globe. Hoyle calls these miraculous devices “Vision Phones," (much more lyrical than i-Phone.)
Of course, in author Geoffrey Hoyle's 1972 vision of the 2000's, those screens are telephone-based, the size of a large dishwasher—and we use them while wearing practical and ingeniously designed jumpsuits made of “a material so light you can hardly feel it”. We eat using an amazing device into which we simply type our culinary desires on a screen, and voila, a fresh cooked meal to our exact specifications! Better yet no more rush hour, no more gas fueled vehicles, and no houses larger than any family’s needs (if only we'd heeded the warnings!)
Some of Mr. Hoyle's nearly forty year old predictions are remarkably accurate, some are delightfully wrong, all of them are thought provoking in a very entertaining, pull it out at a party, kind of way. Accompanied by it’s original ultra seventies illustrations2011: Living in the Future is a near facsimnile of the original with very slight modifications. Mr. Hoyle's book makes a wonderful gift to both children and adults, or to anyone who has ever speculated on what the future holds, lamented the lack of modern day jet packs, or just likes to laugh at how different the future turns out to be from anything we could have, or can predict!

作者簡介

Geoffrey Hoyle, son of noted British astronomer and author Fred Hoyle, is a science fiction author and envisioner of the future. Geoffrey Hoyle (born 1942) is an English science fiction writer, best known for the works which he co-authored with his father, the astronomer Fred Hoyle. About half of Fred Hoyle's science fiction works were co-authored with his son. He was educated at Bryanston School in Dorset, and then entered Cambridge where he read fine arts. After 1964, Hoyle worked in London in the field of modern communications and the film/television industry. Unlike his father, he is not a scientist, and contributed to the more "human" side of their co-authored novels - however, he did work as a "scientific advisor" to some series such as Timeslip In 2010, his book 2010 Living in the Future (now retitled very slightly) was popularised by a blog which compared Hoyle's 38-year-old predictions with the reality of modern life. This led to a Facebook campaign to track down Hoyle and talk to him about his visions.