Re: Five SF Books Set in the Future... of 2020

In article <vcc656$ipb$1@panix2.panix.com>,
James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:

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Five SF Books Set in the Future… of 2020
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How did science fiction imagine the world of the 2020s? Let's
look at some of the more entertaining predictions and speculations...
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https://reactormag.com/five-sf-books-set-in-the-future-of-2020/

I have read none of these, unsurprisingly.  However, I absolutely did
read a (purportedly non-fiction) book, THE 2025 REPORT: A CONCISE
HISTORY OF THE FUTURE, 1975-2025, published in 1985 by libertarian
British journalist Norman Macrae.  (Published a year earlier with like
adjustments to the title in Britain.)

I remember very little of it other than the title and the author's
suggestion that in the future, nationality would be a matter of choice
and not birth, and states would compete, on the basis of economic
"freedom", for citizens.  It is perhaps unsurprising that the author
wrote this after spending nearly four decades writing for The
Economist.

-GAWollman

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