The Usborne BOOK OF THE FUTURE!

So excited to unwrap this out-of-print blast from my past!
Probably the best book about the future. Written in the late 1970s, it predicted what life would be like in the 21st century.
Check out while I unbox the book for the first time and give a short overview of this RETRO-FUTURISM gem!
If you know or like this book, post a comment!
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[@darkshwing]

I signed this out numerous times in elementary school in the mid 80s, and was such an exciting book to read to enhance my imagination of what the future would be like when I grew up. The illustrations, especially the ones in part 2 Future Cities are so vivid even almost 4 decades later. I've always wondered who the author was and was even tempted to visit my elementary school library to find that book. I only found out recently who the author was through a futurism history page on Facebook and so excited to find this book again.

[@reticulan5]

Oh I love these books even today and I’m 60 now. In 1979 I was 15-16 that year. It so grabbed my attention and passion. These books were definitely inspiration for me. Everyday I would come home from school. Come to my room and chill with these box. No matter how many times i read the pages or saw the incredible pictures.

[@robv]

Thanks for this! I had exactly the same experience with that book as a kid, too!

[@rsalek]

I just ordered this on Ebay. Cant wait to get it!!!

[@NickWestgate]

I don't have my original, but you can download these now for free. The page with two versions of the future you turn to at 2:55 has stayed with me my whole life. We've been heading the wrong way since i read that, and still are! Great video.

[@thegeekychronicles]

Amazing! I want a book like this. This reminds me of that movie idea you had that had a retro-futuristic aesthetic (which I'm totally going to steal btw).

[@audiogus2651]

Enjoy!

[@RogbodgeVideo]

Iv'e owed a copy for years!

[@Phrancis5]

Nice! I still have a few of the paperback ones from my childhood, along with those TTA sci-fi books. I'm glad I kept em, even thought they look rough. It's interesting to see which of those predictions panned out...

[@Protokino]

That’s awesome, I’m glad you kept them too!

[@mcd3379]

I still have the original three books from my childhood. They were amazing books when they first published. Unfortunately, the technologies and inventions the books foretold have not come to fruition as science has taken a back seat to consumerism. We haven't landed on Mars, but we do have the Ipad. However they are still great books.

[@babahow]

I just don't think the technology was ever going to be there it was kind of naive. Is one of them about landing on Mars by 2000 and colonising it by 2020? I always remembered that lol

[@mcd3379]

@@babahow I think the technology would have been there if we'd kept pushing. As early as the end of the Apollo program in the 1970s Von Braun was lobbying congress to go to Mars within a 10 year time period. Unfortunately Nixon came to power and vetoed it, instead opting for the much cheaper space shuttle - the sub orbital astronaut killer which put the ambitions of NASA to sleep for 30 years plus.

[@invent0r137]

This is awesome! I love this book and I've been trying to find an affordable copy but haven't had any luck so far. Where did you get yours?

[@Protokino]

Got it off Amazon for $150 USD. I think that’s as affordable as they get, unfortunately.