

The Future
Author: Nick Montfort
Narrator: Sean Pratt
Unabridged: 3 hr 36 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Ascent Audio
Published: 02/27/2018
Categories: Nonfiction, Social Science, Future Studies
Synopsis
Montfort focuses on how the development of technologies—with an emphasis on digital technologies—has been bound up with ideas about the future. Readers learn about kitchens of the future and the vision behind them; literary utopias, from Plato's Republic to Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland; the Futurama exhibit at the 1939 New York World's Fair; and what led up to Tim Berners-Lee's invention of the World Wide Web.