Living in Tomorrowland

Before the Future Became Ordinary

von Michael W Silverman

84 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

What happens when the future you grew up imagining quietly becomes ordinary life?Living in Tomorrowland is Michael Silverman's personal journey through the technologies, places, habits, and expectations that shaped his life-from the optimism of the 1964 New York World's Fair and the Apollo moon landings to smartphones, streaming, GPS, online shopping, artificial intelligence, and a watch that now watches him.Growing up with encyclopedias, landlines, Hi-Fi consoles, paper maps, shopping centers, and four-channel television, Silverman absorbed a vision of the future built on convenience, wonder, and steady progress. In these short memoir essays, he looks back at what everyday life once felt like and considers the strange experience of living long enough to watch so much of it disappear.Some dreams came true. Others arrived in forms nobody expected. Along the way, we gained extraordinary convenience and access-but also lost some privacy, serendipity, shared experiences, and the ability simply to be unreachable.Warm, reflective, and often funny, Living in Tomorrowland is about memory, technology, and the moment when the future stops being something ahead of us and becomes the life we barely notice we are already living.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798172649219
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 19.09.2026
• Größe: 203 x 133 mm
• Verlag: Independently published