Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Future

Brain surgery is taught in primary schools, as edible computers become commonplace.

A quirky range of deadly ‘fun-guns’ (with real bullets) aimed at the lucrative child market will be available to purchase from all respectable on-line retailers.

Obsolete tractors will be repurposed as church seating.

In a new governmental drive aimed at providing meaning and purpose, unemployed graduates are engaged to count the pebbles on Brighton beach.

Fashion Police are finally introduced and have the power of arrest, and tasers.

A short-lived fashion for animal-head transplants proliferates before legal loopholes are closed and the practice moves underground again.

Egg lands on the moon.

A global egg-space-race captures the airwaves and consequently the public’s attention. T-shirts are made and sold, people meet and marry based on their shared love of space-eggs. A Scottish egg launch has to be aborted when the circuits of the main computer fry under pressure.

Eggs in space.

The first guitar school for dogs will open in Helsinki.