NEW HIST OF THE FUTURE IN 100 OBJECTS: A Fiction

A must read - especially for the younger generation , to from what has been , is , and will be .

When I read this I noted that some of the ideas came from some of my favorite authors such as Ian Banks and Vernor Vinge.They are noted at the end as contributors. I really enjoyed this quick read. Makes me hope that I'll make it to an asteroid but, while not likely, my kids may. Fly High!

As with all futurology, this book will become historic and wrong quite quickly. Yet its value lies in having a strong imagination of a possible future. The macro sense of change for all of Earth and its population over decades. The 100 objects conceit allows the author to jump between interesting issues and possibilities without being sucked into the mundanity of extrapolating every possibility.I'd say this book was a better read in one day of the complexity of future possibilities than a year of reading Wired magazine.

Visionary Fiction for sure~ At first I thought the vignettes would all be scattered, but the author manages to actually pull together a narrative half way through the book.It is definitely a bit first world/metropole centric, would definitely recommend reading The Wretched of the Earth right after reading this.Read it on the Kindle app on my phone and finished it in a week.

Its a good gift

This is an incredible book. Its rare that such an imaginative and thorough view of the future is packaged into such a great narrative. Many of the objects that Hon describes are pretty visionary. As a technology product manager, this has given me a TON of great ideas for my work.