Skeptics' Guide to the Future: What Yesterday's Science and Science Fiction Tell Us About the World of Tomorrow

This book is for those who think about the future, giving them perspective on what to expect, rooted in the historic views of the future people have held, the pitfalls of these expectations and looking at what also went right. This book is a follow-up from the original The Skeptics Guide to the Universe, featuring a shared cast of writers and hosts, Steven Novella and company take a look at the work of futurists and what influenced the conclusions about the future they reached. Sometimes, there were outlandish leaps the individual power to influence climate, people didn’t anticipate a sexual revolution, airplanes that would sail the skies the way cruise ships are on the oceans. This book is a look into how technology and culture have been prominent influencers in the way we envision the future to come — whether that future is closer to fantasy rather than fate.