Hip, Connected Futurist Polishes Up His Crystal Ball

Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years , by Bruce Sterling. Random House, 320 pages, $24.95.

Herbert George (H.G.) Wells, science-fiction pioneer and coiner of the phrase “atomic bomb,” famously predicted many events decades in advance: the rise of Adolf Hitler, the London Blitz of 1941, the abolition of all money in 1965 and, Read More