TY  - GEN
AU  - Hon, Adrian 
TI  - New history of the future in 100 objects: a fiction
SN  - 9780262539371
U1  - 823.92 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - English Fiction
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - Future
KW  - Speculative fiction
KW  - Objects and artifacts
KW  - Posthumans
N2  - In the year 2082, a curator looks back at the twenty-first century, offering a history of the era through a series of objects and artifacts. He reminisces about the power of connectivity, which was reinforced by such technologies as silent messaging—wearable computers that relay subvocal communication; recalls the Fourth Great Awakening, when a regimen of pills could make someone virtuous; and notes disapprovingly the use of locked interrogation, which delivers “enhanced interrogation” simulations via virtual reality. The unnamed curator quotes from a self-help guide to making friends with “posthumans,” describes the establishment of artificial worlds on asteroids, and recounts pro-democracy movements in epistocratic states. In A New History of the Future in 100 Objects, Adrian Hon constructs a possible future by imagining the things it might leave in its wake
ER  -