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Where are those jet-packs? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In Geoffrey Hoyle's book\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003e2011: Living in the Future\u003c\/i\u003e in the far-off year 2011, we'll all do our work, attend school and read library books on ingenious video screens that can connect to each other from anywhere around the globe. Hoyle calls these miraculous devices Vision Phones, (much more lyrical than i-Phone.) \u003c\/p\u003e Of course, in author Geoffrey Hoyle's 1972 vision of the 2000's, those screens are telephone-based, the size of a large dishwasher--and we use them while wearing practical and ingeniously designed jumpsuits made of a material so light you can hardly feel it. We eat using an amazing device into which we simply type our culinary desires on a screen, and voila, a fresh cooked meal to our exact specifications  Better yet no more rush hour, no more gas fueled vehicles, and no houses larger than any family's needs (if only we'd heeded the warnings ) Some of Mr. Hoyle's nearly forty year old predictions are remarkably accurate, some are delightfully wrong, all of them are thought provoking in a very entertaining, pull it out at a party, kind of way. Accompanied by it's original ultra seventies illustrations\u0026gt;\u003ci\u003e2011: Living in the Future\u003c\/i\u003e is a near facsimile of the original with very slight modifications. 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About to commit a devastating act, the young man finds himself shot back through time on a shocking sojourn through moments of violence in American history. He resurfaces in the form of an FBI agent during the civil rights era, inhabits the body of an Indian child during the battle at Little Big Horn, and then rides with an Indian tracker in the 19th Century before materializing as an airline pilot jetting through the skies today. When finally, blessedly, our young warrior comes to rest again in his own contemporary body, he is mightily transformed by all he's seen. This is Sherman Alexie at his most brilliant -- making us laugh while breaking our hearts. 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