Modelling time travel in fiction @ Things Of Interest - [Stumbles via StumbleUpon]

This is a pretty interesting read about time travel. It goes on to describe the different ways that time travel is used in fiction, and gives us an idea of how time travel might be possible (or impossible).

The Usborne Book of the Future - [Stumbles via StumbleUpon]

An interesting look at what people from 1979 thought the future would be like.

Things like this often make me wonder if people are just optimistic, or if things are worse now than they should be.