The ideal book for all those wondering if there’s any way of applying brakes to the handcart.
Prices for a latte are skyrocketing, animal-free non-smoking households suddenly lose their wireless connection while the over 50s are dying like flies atop their new e-bikes. The golden years of plenty are well and truly over. Make no mistake, the future is on your doorstep. And it won’t be Elysian Fields 2.0, either. What will it feel like to have a robot nurse insert a catheter into your urethra? Will erotica only exist as a smartphone app? What about a service that’ll pop round and pick up your dead grandad? Is funeroo the next big thing?
This book gives a voice to everyone who looks to the future with uneasy trepidation rather than naïve hope. Businesspeople, agricultural managers, clerics, pensioners, interns, politicians and activists tell us how it feels when their familiar, comfortable way of living vanishes before their eyes.
Wischmeyer creates a surprisingly complex picture of today’s – and tomorrow’s – social norms.
