The Usborne Book of the Future

I picked up a copy of The Usborne Book of the Future. It’s a classic from 1979, recently reissued in hardcover. This book is actually a collection of 3 books: Robots, Future Cities, and Star Travel. I had the Star Travel book as a kid and I loved it, I spent hours looking at the illustrations of space ships and futuristic vehicles. And I borrowed Future Cities from the library a bunch of times and also spent a lot of time looking at the pictures and imagining what the future would be like. Never saw the Robots book though, but now all three books are available again, and, as the cover blurb proudly says, “unabridged, unedited, and un-updated!” I miss these kinds of books that had an optimistic view of the future.