Future Vision

Madeleine Rogers’s background is in illustration, graphic and product design. Recently graduated with an MA in Sustainable Design, her practice is focused on communicating wonder and awe for the natural world to young audiences. She has authored and illustrated a series of books celebrating wildlife which have been translated into several languages. Her award-winning make-them-yourself paper animals, MIBO series, published by Button Books, have inspired children around the world to celebrate the wonderful and unique species of our planet. She is also passionate about growing food and understanding food systems. In her spare time she is a volunteer shepherd and a nature friendly gardener. She is based East Sussex.Cathy RogersDr Cathy Rogers began her career in TV, as a creator and producer of science programmes, including the Emmy-nominated Scrapheap Challenge(UK)/Junkyard Wars(US). She returned to academia for a PhD in Educational Neuroscience, looking at how creativity works in the brain and has since written a book for teachers about how brains work. Her passion lies in communicating science, whether that’s explaining neuroscience to a class of 7 year olds or grilling NASA professors about the future of space exploration. She is also a musician and plays in the indie band Heavenly, which is currently touring worldwide. She is based in London.Madeleine and Cathy fervently believe that young people need more positive stories about the future.

Future Vision: Stories of our Brilliant Tomorrow helps bring out the inner optimist and keeps the cynical at bay. This nonfiction book is about the future and set in the year 2070. It shows us what the world might be like in 40-50 years’ time. ..., it can be difficult to be optimistic – but progress takes years, decades. Making readers aware of this is what this book does really well. It shows how all the positive things being done now might impact the future, and how readers might be able to impact the future too.Future Vision would sit well in various areas of the curriculum as an accompanying text. Especially in science, technology and environmental topics. Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 children will find this fascinating and inspiring as do all of us when presented with visions of the wonders of tomorrow.

• Welcome to 2070 4-5  Transport 6-11 The A-Z of A to B  Wildlife 12-17 There’s a Bison in my Backyard  Homes 18-21 Helping Hands and Glowing Greens  Artificial Intelligence 22-25 Einstein in my Pocket  Energy 26-31 Green is the New Black  Health and Wellbeing 32-35 Finding our Happy Place  Oceans 36-41 Swimming with Siphonophores  Food 42-45 My 2070 Food Diary  Space 46-49 Out of this World   Democracy 50-53 Power to the People  The Journey Starts Here 54-55 One Small Step  About the Authors/Acknowledgements 56