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One book I liked a lot as a kid was 1982's Kid's Whole Future Catalog (the title a play on the "Whole Earth Catalog") with all kinds of interesting and inspiring visions for what might have been coming down the pike.

Another book that caught my eye but I didn't have my act enough together together to note it on the obvious day was "Arthur C. Clarke's July 20, 2019: Life in the 21st Century", another future-looking book (written around 1986).

Somehow it feels like we've lost that techno-optimism. Like not a lot of confidence that the world of 2060 is gonna be that great. (And some of he cyberpunk corporate dystopias from the later 80s seem the most likely.)