As a fan of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, the webcomic of one of the authors, I forgot this existed. I don't know how I remembered, but I'm glad I did, because everything discussed was just far enough into the future that the past five years hasn't made it irrelevant. Woohoo!

This was a genuine pleasure to read. It covers a lot of cool things at a level of detail that is understandable but still shows the complexities involved, and it's also just funny. It's nice to see that they aren't just hyping up a bunch of stuff, with every chapter having a section on likely concerns and related chapters make sure to remind us of the inevitable robot uprising. 

There's a chapter dedicated to the idea graveyard, where they talk briefly about things they couldn't write about in the same way as the rest of the book, and I really like that instead of doing a half-assed job on a bunch of topics they just said "these are cool but for these reasons we're not doing it." So often books ride the hype train to be more exciting, or they pretend they're the only thing worth being hyped about, or they just fluff up a bunch of content to make it seem like they totally know what's going on, but this book is none of that. It's a bunch of cool things the authors were able to do good research on, and it's an acknowledgement that they are not the totality of things affecting the future nor are they going to do a bad job of explaining things just because they like an idea.

I feel like I'm rambling. Basically this is one of the best pop sci books I've ever read, putting the whole genre to shame, go read it before it goes too far out of date to be interesting.