I must admit I thought this book was about how people in the past thought the future would be, but I was wrong. It is instead about what the future will be like from a year 2000 perspective. The book is divided into chapters and each chapter looks at a different subject area. I was surprised at how conservative he was in places, for example saying that houses will stay the same as thats how people like them. Which I found pleasing. But very radical in others, this is the problem with trying to work out how the future will look as something very simple can transform it, something the author brings up throughout the book. The book is about future technology mostly, not about economics, politics or society. An interesting book, even 14 years after it was published and some of it's predictions are already wrong, which I think makes it more interesting not less. ( )