Library Find of the Day

I was helping a student find books on the future of the government for a research project. Being a librarian (and a nerd) I was very excited to find a book in my catalog called Future Government: Our Future World. Then I got to the shelf and found this:



Well, ok. So it shows the government flying around in a spaceship. So what? It could happen, right? Maybe this book would be a wealth of information! Boy, was I ever right. When I opened it up to find a description, I found an excellent synopsis right in the front cover.

Eh? Futurists, you say? Were they predicting that hairstyles and mustaches like this would remain in fashion, or that they would make a resurgence in the twenty-first century? God, I hope the latter.

The book also contained a few gold nuggets of information. For example, on page 36: "The worst thing that man has ever invented is war. The one area that everyone hopes will never be touched by war is outer space." So true, so true. After all, when our future governments are run by the crew from the Star Trek Voyager, we won't want them to be in danger of space missiles.



I learned one other thing from this book: in the future, all global issues will be solved by arm wrestling. Good to know.