The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop

First published in 1979, the ‘Usborne Book of the Future’ is a fondly-remembered book from a time when people dreamed of the future as a place filled with wonder and amazing new technology. After more than 40 years of science fiction focussing on dystopias and doom, it’s time to remind readers young and old that, in fact, the future is still a place that holds hope and excitement. This book is built in three sections. The first explores all kinds of robots, the jobs they will do on land, sea and in space, and where they will get power from. The second is all about cities of the future, and how people will live, what new buildings they will build, how computers will change the world, and what people will do for fun. The final section is about the future of travel, from planes, trains and cars on Earth, to space shuttles and journeys to colonise other planets.