Not a post about failing to catch up with correspondence.

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Those of you with reasonably intact memories, and exceedingly dull lives, may recall my uncharacteristic enthusiasm regarding the scanning and uploading (in convenient PDF) of The Usborne Book of the Future*, a robot-riddled hardback volume of, ultimately, contemptible inaccuracy which brought me oodles of joy and happy expectation as a wide-eyed, optimistic youth. Well, some nostalgia-mongers (specifically Greg Benford and the editors of Popular Mechanics) have cranked out a new tome which this old builder of crystal radio sets would happily, if temporarily, put down his soldering iron for:



You can read about it here:

http://www.geeks.co.uk/29019-wonderful-future

Enjoy the rest of your respective weekends.

*23Mb: http://life.enhasa.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/The%20Usborne%20Book%20of%20the%20Future.pdf