The future is unknowable, but that hasn’t stopped prognosticators from trying to imagine what’s in store for us a few decades, or even a few millennia, from now. Popular culture has envisioned a future both utopian (think George Jetson and moving sidewalks) and bleak (like Mike Judge’s cult film Idiocracy). But, whether optimistic or dystopian, visions of the future are rarely right — in fact, most of these predictions are wrong, often hilariously so.
Paul Milo has produced an exhaustive compendium of predictions of the future in his highly readable, often laugh-out-loud funny book Your Flying Car Awaits
took flight in 1998, but Moore’s trenchant, witty, and deeply wrought prose reemerges just as we remembered it; and while books not concerning boy wizards or teenage vampires are rarely events nowadays, Moore’s astonishing 
deserves to be fetishized.
