The Future (finally) Is Now (sort of...)

Remember growing up and reading those "futuristic" books of how the future would be? The books were probably printed in the 60's or 70's but they still were in public school libraries when I checked and rechecked them out, repeatedly, in elementary school in the early-mid 80's. I loved the animated drawings of "Cities of the future" with all the futuristic things they entailed - robots,