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Future Worlds
Ever wondered what your life will be like 100 years from now? Based on the latest in scientific thinking, Future Worlds will tell you just that, covering everything from the forms of transport we will use, the jobs we will do to how and what we will eat. Welcome to the future...
Fully illustrated, packed full of incredible facts and written by Anna Claybourne and James Gilleard, you'll get the chance to truly imagine the world in which we will one day live. With full-page gatefolds and flaps to lift throughout packed full of extra information, there's plenty of scope for kids and adults alike to envision the future of Planet Earth.
Predict what our cities will look like, how we'll keep ourselves entertained, whether we might end up colonizing other worlds, how we might combat the effects of climate change and lots more. This is a new Lonely Planet guide to the world - just one that doesn't exist yet.
About Lonely Planet Kids: Lonely Planet Kids - an imprint of the world's leading travel authority Lonely Planet - published its first book in 2011. Over the past 45 years, Lonely Planet has grown a dedicated global community of travellers, many of whom are now sharing a passion for exploration with their children. Lonely Planet Kids educates and encourages young readers at home and in school to learn about the world with engaging books on culture, sociology, geography, nature, history, space and more. We want to inspire the next generation of global citizens and help kids and their parents to approach life in a way that makes every day an adventure. Come explore!
Fully illustrated, packed full of incredible facts and written by Anna Claybourne and James Gilleard, you'll get the chance to truly imagine the world in which we will one day live. With full-page gatefolds and flaps to lift throughout packed full of extra information, there's plenty of scope for kids and adults alike to envision the future of Planet Earth.
Predict what our cities will look like, how we'll keep ourselves entertained, whether we might end up colonizing other worlds, how we might combat the effects of climate change and lots more. This is a new Lonely Planet guide to the world - just one that doesn't exist yet.
About Lonely Planet Kids: Lonely Planet Kids - an imprint of the world's leading travel authority Lonely Planet - published its first book in 2011. Over the past 45 years, Lonely Planet has grown a dedicated global community of travellers, many of whom are now sharing a passion for exploration with their children. Lonely Planet Kids educates and encourages young readers at home and in school to learn about the world with engaging books on culture, sociology, geography, nature, history, space and more. We want to inspire the next generation of global citizens and help kids and their parents to approach life in a way that makes every day an adventure. Come explore!
24 pages, Hardcover
Published October 20, 2020
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A beat-up old car, a few dollars in the pocket and a sense of adventure. In 1972 that’s all Tony and Maureen Wheeler needed for the trip of a lifetime – across Europe and Asia overland to Australia. It took several months, and at the end – broke but inspired – they sat at their kitchen table writing and stapling together their first travel guide, Across Asia on the Cheap. Within a week they’d sold 1500 copies and Lonely Planet was born. One hundred million guidebooks later, Lonely Planet is the world’s leading travel guide publisher with content to almost every destination on the planet.
A beat-up old car, a few dollars in the pocket and a sense of adventure. In 1972 that’s all Tony and Maureen Wheeler needed for the trip of a lifetime – across Europe and Asia overland to Australia. It took several months, and at the end – broke but inspired – they sat at their kitchen table writing and stapling together their first travel guide, Across Asia on the Cheap. Within a week they’d sold 1500 copies and Lonely Planet was born. One hundred million guidebooks later, Lonely Planet is the world’s leading travel guide publisher with content to almost every destination on the planet.
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August 11, 2023
Children need books to get excited about the future of humanity, and the benefits of technology in their own lifetime. So books, like this are really important, for giving hope. Star Trek did this for my generation, and the Jetsons might have for the generation before me.
The Pro technology perspective of this book is unabashed and effective, especially the space and medicine sections seem aimed to excite young boys, and the authors balance with sections on fashion and lifestyle perhaps for girls. The language throughout is uniformly inviting for any child, and I liked the illustrations.
Unfortunately, I felt a lack of imagination… it wasn’t even a compilation of contemporary sci fi. The entertainment section seem to be listed straight from Mark Zuckerberg‘s Metaverse pitch deck.
New technology happens because consumers demand it or because some organization decides to create and disseminate it. A clear need must exist, and half of the “ideas” here are cool without solving any real problem.
Some scaled labels of likelihood and immediacy are necessary. A few of the ideas are coming within a few years with certainty, others likely never or not for decades. As a technologist, I can distinguish, but for kids the vagueness could be disorienting, since the details of ‘how’ these scenarios could happen are left to the reader.
Most regrettably, this is only aimed at rich Americans or Europeans. It doesn’t deal with realities like climate crisis, unemployment, inequality, poverty, infrastructure. Half of Africa doesn’t have electricity. Mobile phones changed lives everywhere, so billions have sold. Nothing in this book feels that broadly beneficial
The Pro technology perspective of this book is unabashed and effective, especially the space and medicine sections seem aimed to excite young boys, and the authors balance with sections on fashion and lifestyle perhaps for girls. The language throughout is uniformly inviting for any child, and I liked the illustrations.
Unfortunately, I felt a lack of imagination… it wasn’t even a compilation of contemporary sci fi. The entertainment section seem to be listed straight from Mark Zuckerberg‘s Metaverse pitch deck.
New technology happens because consumers demand it or because some organization decides to create and disseminate it. A clear need must exist, and half of the “ideas” here are cool without solving any real problem.
Some scaled labels of likelihood and immediacy are necessary. A few of the ideas are coming within a few years with certainty, others likely never or not for decades. As a technologist, I can distinguish, but for kids the vagueness could be disorienting, since the details of ‘how’ these scenarios could happen are left to the reader.
Most regrettably, this is only aimed at rich Americans or Europeans. It doesn’t deal with realities like climate crisis, unemployment, inequality, poverty, infrastructure. Half of Africa doesn’t have electricity. Mobile phones changed lives everywhere, so billions have sold. Nothing in this book feels that broadly beneficial
August 6, 2022
Reviewed a hardcover copy for Raincoast Books
Fantastic book to spur on the imagination and develop your critical thinking skills.
Can we really imagine a world like this? What changes would you make? What would need to happen to make the ideas within a reality?
Foldout pages, and lift the flaps make this an informative, thought-provoking read, as well as simply being fun. It's great to think of what might happen in the future.
Fantastic book to spur on the imagination and develop your critical thinking skills.
Can we really imagine a world like this? What changes would you make? What would need to happen to make the ideas within a reality?
Foldout pages, and lift the flaps make this an informative, thought-provoking read, as well as simply being fun. It's great to think of what might happen in the future.
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