Children's book, speculative non-fiction about the future, ?called 2000.

[NannyOgg]

I'm fairly sure it would have been either the late '70s or the early '80s when I read this book. I recall it as being a hardback, but can't be definite about that.

It was one of those speculative books about 'what will life be like in the future?' I thought it might be fun to get a copy and see what the author got right and wrong!

I am very hazy on the details after all this time, and, of course, I'm sure more than one book like this was written, so I might end up with the wrong one - but it'll still be interesting to read. Here's what I think I remember about it:

I think it may actually have been called '2000'. However, there are so many other books with that in the title that I'm getting nowhere on a search for that.

It was directed at a youngish age group; each page had a few lines of text followed by a picture.

I think one of the predictions may have been that people would read books on screens. (If so, the author obviously got that one right...)

 

[geosmithredux]

Could it have been "The Usborne Book of the Future" (that has the subtitle of "A Trip in Time to the Year 2000 and Beyond") by Kenneth Gatland and David Jeffries? If not that specific one I think they did some others (though that is the only one I have a copy of).

[ETA] Another option might be one of the "Terran Transit Authority" books (or the books that came out copying that style).

 

[NannyOgg]

Could it have been "The Usborne Book of the Future" (that has the subtitle of "A Trip in Time to the Year 2000 and Beyond") by Kenneth Gatland and David Jeffries?

No - but the book looks good anyway. If it was a reasonable price I'd buy it (unfortunately, it's far too expensive!)

The Terran Transit Authority stuff doesn't look like it either.

Thanks anyway! I'd clean forgotten I'd posted this.

 

[monkeypooper]

A.D 2000 maybe

 

[NannyOgg]

Any idea who wrote that?

 

[monkeypooper]

A.D. 2000: A book about the end of time by Rene Noorbergen

a collection of prophecy

 

[NannyOgg]

This one seems to be about predictions and prophecies, so doesn't sound like the one I remember. Thanks anyway.

 

[Talos]

Shot in the dark, but perhaps "Looking Backward, From the Year 2000" by Mack Reynolds?

 

[Danny McG]

Shot in the dark, but perhaps "Looking Backward, From the Year 2000" by Mack Reynolds?

I wouldn't think so, that was quite adult (and kinda dull)