Kids' Whole Future Cat

by Paula Taylor

Book Overview

A collection of readings, pictures, and projects which suggest how everyday life, work, and play may be influenced by new technology in the future. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394850904
• ISBN13: 9780394850900
• Release Date: September 1982
• Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Get back in print!

This is an incredible and easy to read resource on possible future inventions, jobs, technologies, houses, types of living structures (e.g., living houses, deep underground, floating cities, flying cities, space farms), space travel, how to live a more natural lifestyle, the type which might come back into vogue in the future, recycling, future languages, how to achieve world peace, you name it. It's for anyone who's interested in how life might be like in the future, whether you want the information for a story, book, or article you're writing or you're just interested in the information for its own sake. I know it got me fascinated enough to read other books on this very subject, and upset that we haven't yet got the majority of the things described, like the terraforming of Mars and the Moon, flying cities, and houses made entirely out of things like soda bottles and empty cartons of bleach. While it's still available in good libraries, it really needs to get back in print and to be updated; things have changed a lot since 1982!

An excellent book for kids, and all interested in the future

This is a fascinating book that outlines a myriad of different technologies and scenarios about the future. From housing, to food, longevity research, floating cities, robotics, space-travel, and colonization. I've shown this to various futurist friends, and they all agree: This book should be re-published, and revised to include the latest in technological advances. It belongs on the shelf of every child, and anyone else who's concerned about the future. Find a copy, if you can. It's great!