(Children’s) Future Tech

It is exhilarating or frightening to look at the recent technological past then translate it to the rate of change in the near future. Consider what we now take for granted, like the power of the laptop on which this review is being written or the ubiquitous mobile phone with all its clever gadgets (ignoring its infuriating intrusion into travel, meetings and everywhere else), then try and guess their further sophistication over the next five or ten years. This is all brought home by these two volumes in particular, within a series where we have previously given a favourable review...