Kids' Whole Future Catalog [Paperback]

Paula Taylor (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 12, 1982

A collection of readings, pictures, and projects which suggest how everyday life, work, and play may be influenced by new technology in the future.

Product Details

• Paperback: 254 pages
• Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers; First Printing edition (September 12, 1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0394850904
• ISBN-13: 978-0394850900
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #495,315 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent book for kids, and all interested in the future, October 21, 1997

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Patrick G Salsbury (Santa Cruz, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Kids' Whole Future Catalog (Paperback)

This is a fascinating book that outlines a myriad of different technologies and scenarios about the future. From housing, to food, longevity research, floating cities, robotics, space-travel, and colonization.

I've shown this to various futurist friends, and they all agree: This book should be re-published, and revised to include the latest in technological advances. It belongs on the shelf of every child, and anyone else who's concerned about the future.

Find a copy, if you can. It's great!

5.0 out of 5 stars Get back in print!, September 11, 2004

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Anyechka (Rensselaer, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Kids' Whole Future Cat (Hardcover)

This is an incredible and easy to read resource on possible future inventions, jobs, technologies, houses, types of living structures (e.g., living houses, deep underground, floating cities, flying cities, space farms), space travel, how to live a more natural lifestyle, the type which might come back into vogue in the future, recycling, future languages, how to achieve world peace, you name it. It's for anyone who's interested in how life might be like in the future, whether you want the information for a story, book, or article you're writing or you're just interested in the information for its own sake. I know it got me fascinated enough to read other books on this very subject, and upset that we haven't yet got the majority of the things described, like the terraforming of Mars and the Moon, flying cities, and houses made entirely out of things like soda bottles and empty cartons of bleach. While it's still available in good libraries, it really needs to get back in print and to be updated; things have changed a lot since 1982!