Yesterday's vision of the future

This immediately appealed to me - it's an examination of one man's vision of the future, that man being Geoffrey Hoyle and the future being here and now in 2010. Bear in mind that he wrote this children's book in 1972 and it's amazing how much about today's world he got right.

Some of it is unnervingly accurate, especially with regard to telecomms, some is a little wide of the mark (like everybody wearing jumpsuits) and one thing I really wish he'd got right was that we'd all have so much leisure time. Maybe that happens in 2011.

What is also engaging about this little book is that it made such an impression on a little lad called Daniel Sinker, who bought the book after it had been withdrawn from his local library and kept it all these years. And now he's put it up on the web so that we can all marvel at it and mounted a campaign to find the author, Geoffrey Hoyle, son of astronomer Fred Hoyle.

So far, it's been confirmed that Geoffrey's alive but we don't know if he's aware of the sudden renaissance of his children's book 2010 vision of the future. I've joined the Facebook campaign and hope to hear more about him and his further views about what the future holds.

Read it for yourself and comment on it at Daniel Sinker's site.

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