SummarySeventeen prescient tales of the near future: from global chaos to our obsession with celebrities, from virtual reality to the final flooding of Calcutta, from genetic engineering to the future of the Internet. A truly perceptive mind sized it all up decades before most people realized what was going down.Table of ContentsImages 1Island Vacation 13Arm of Decision 21The Jewelry Shop 31Helpful Harry 39Career Fair 51Death Looked Down 61Older Patterns 99Online 109Her Big Chance 129Rollout! 147Djinnetic Code 155Job Fair 175The Ascension of Saint Susan 187May/December at the Mall 203Continuing Ed 213Falling Forward 219About the Author 227About the AuthorBrian Dana Akers grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan and spent his teenage years building telescopes, reading science fiction, and practicing Yoga. He started six years of undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Michigan in 1975, with his senior year abroad in India. His studies included Sanskrit and Indian history.Brian then left for the San Francisco Bay Area and worked as a typographer and network manager. In July of 1991—with sun, moon, and earth aligned in the Golfo de California—he met Loretta, moved to New York, and married her.