Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Future

Confounding the majority of futurologists, sock puppets are back in fashion with more sock-puppet kits sold than smartphones. This blip is caused by a worldwide glut of socks and googly eyes.

Pickled gherkins once again return to the top of the breakfast charts.

Handshakes and milkshakes are combined into something quite memorable.

The majority of singles are opting to spend their lives with intelligent fabric, instead of human counterparts.

Light is for sale in vending machines.

A troupe of Boris Johnson impersonators tour the country on solar-powered Vespa’s in a hard-hitting comedy-nostalgia-revival-mash-up-immersive-performance, with the aim of bringing fascism back to the masses.

All wells are coin-operated and owned by Nestle.

A new sea vessel – The Convercraft – is launched. Half Concorde, half hovercraft, with a free Kit-Kat for every passenger; the goalposts of passenger transport systems are forever shifted.

Holographic curtains replace traditional window-coverings.

Robots win.