The Past of the Future
597928
This is a great movie. Although it is somewhat fast-paced for my preferences it is and interesting continuation of the SG-1 team. Also, don't place much stock in their temporal dynamics, but suit yourself.
2596439
Wonderful narrative of a time gone by.  Hopefully readers will get an awareness of the importance of preserving our environment.
3055011
Materials from the present, containing lessons of the past, and necessary skills for our collective future.  It is time we learned everything we can about sustainability.
2509591
Isaac Asimov is my favorite author and that makes it difficult to say anything negative about his work... So I won't.

This work takes you back in time so you can see the future, a future that is yet beyond tomorrow, in a different light than you can see it in today.

A future visualized as having similar morals, social interaction and ideals based on and somewhat similar to those held by Americans of the past.

A dark future, full of bright possibility.
615024
Just goes to show how history can repeat itself if the lessons of the past are forgotten. If you'd like a peak into our future you can watch this movie based on a book written in the 40's. You'll need part 1 and 2 for it to make sense and 3 is on the way soon. It's kinda like a miniseries.
3132702
Interesting how decisions will alter our tomorrow.
551756
This is a fundamental book to understand what the future brings.
There are too much details on some parts of the explanations, bit the point is clear, the future is Near and it looks exciting!
4482577
Imagine being whisked a few hundred years into the future, and when you asked someone what was going on in the world they handed you a copy of the local paper. No, not the New York Times - I'm talking about a LOCAL paper, like the little community paper in your hometown that gives the high school basketball scores. Of course since it's hundreds of years in the future it would be a holographic paper delivered by a robot in a flying car. You would get just enough of the big picture to make you wonder. A few questions might get cleared up, but a whole lot of new ones would take their places.

As a new arrival in Grantville, I was left feeling a little that same way on my reading of "Grantville Gazette VI".  The stories are generally well-crafted; entertaining and erudite.  But they are follow-up stories, tales of events already underway - in short they are very like news articles that presume a least a basic knowledge of current events.

Several of the authors do fill in portions of the back story, so that by the time I had reached the halfway point I had a least a minimal understanding of how the 21st-century town of Grantville, WV had landed in 17th-century Europe. There were still a lot of unanswered questions, but it was more like reading the news from a new town, rather than in a different language.  But one nagging question did remain throughout my reading.

The residents of Grantville, U.S.E. have obviously decided to ignore the age-old axiom regarding time-travel: never try to alter past events in order to influence the future - your actions can have unforeseen and unwanted consequences.  They freely share their knowledge of past history and future technology, seemingly without any qualms about the impact on their ancestors/descendants.  Have they no doubts as to the consequences, or has that issue been resolved in previous volumes?  Inquiring minds want to know!

The different authors cover a wide range of topics, some more ably than others.  I would recommend that readers know the full story of Grantville and the Ring of Fire before undertaking this follow-up feature.
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Winston Churchill said, "The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see." It is, perhaps, surprising to learn that much of what has taken place with the Internet could have been predicted by studying events in the past 150 years. The invention, deployment and integration of the telegraph into society and business practices mirror the Internet in a great many ways.

The Internet has shrunk the world (like never before?), enabled business to take place at the speed of light (like never before?), caused information overload (ditto), and even enabled new mechanisms of dating and marriage to take place (again ditto). One wonders if by studying the rise (and fall) of the telegraph and related technologies we can predict the next "big things" and opportunities in this age of the internet?

This is a terrific "gee-whiz" book, an easy read on an airplane. It will likely amuse you; it may evoke an epiphany or two; it may even spark the idea for a new product or business!
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If you want to know the truth about the past, present and future, look no further, this is THE book.
1722240
Novels, short stories, and films about the future serve a need for all those who crave to participate in it but may not survive long enough to do so. One can participate in the future, enjoy its pleasures and its vices, and contemplate what life will be like just a few decades from now. At this time, the derivative of the curve of technological change will take on its maximum value, and one can therefore expect to witness events and technology that will dwarf those of today. Exciting times are ahead; more exciting than anything that has been witnessed by any human to date. Those born in this century are therefore the luckiest generation, and are the envy of all those technophiles and apologists for the twenty-first century.

This book does a fair job of knocking the reader out of the relative equilibrium of the present, but it could have been a lot better. Its words could have been more carefully chosen, and its content more representative of the roller coaster ride of change that will occur in the year 2033. Celebrity-driven cultures, plastic surgery, and other niceties find their place within the covers of this fem-robot-decorated book, but its plots are sometimes too quiet. This century is noisy, very noisy, even deafening. There is no quiet time in the twenty-first century, since there is no need for it. There are too many interesting distractions, and misbehavior and sexual indulgencies will involve the artificial, but far beyond the simple toys of today. To penetrate a mixture of silicon, plastic, and metal that can also think and lust, will be a normal occurrence in the everyday life of the year 2033.....
3458787
An excellent book with detailed descriptions of the near future. It mirrors my own thoughts on technological change and the potential effects on our work and personal lives.
1361388
Randolf Lalonde has created a believable universe in the far future.  Character are a bit over heroic but the world he creates and the inventions he populates it with are well within the relm of the believable. It is a fasinating look at what the world could be like based on projections of todays technology.
231402
A very interesting book. it makes you aware of how things are now and how they haven't changed much from the past
3251567
I like reading the old stories and compare technology written about then to what we have today and what is written about for the future.
1632212
The authors concept of the future is incredible. It was so interesting, you thought you were really in the future. Little too much description of the violence, but thats just me.
4718261
Interesting. An honest look to the recent past.