Futuristic Reader Gifts

Bookstores outpace the Kindle by devising a way to transfer every book ever written directly into a customer's brain.

Audio Books

Updated Classis: Alice Through the You Tube.

Mini tennis players playing on table tennis court.

'I bought him to retrieve my e-mails.'

Large print e-book.

"Confounded spell checker... never catches anything."

Robot walking pet robot

City Windfarms.

'If you don't like the way I program, just say so!'

Bug reading book has antennae that are lights.

Cat and fishing instruction

Bot Art: After Mary Cassatt

'The next big thing is ultra nano.'

'Social and political revolution? Check out our 'Do It Yourself' section.'

'Don't worry, he'll soon grow into it.'

Pirates

"Pretty impressive for a product of a 3-D printer."

"No I wouldn't say you're ahead of your time. More like 'outside of it'."

"Ambitions . . . to replace mankind."

Giant to librarian: 'Excuse me, do you have a large print version?'

"Hello ... Susan ... Joe ... Not ... Make ... It ... Me ... Joe's ... Robot ... Me ... Programmed ... Take ... You ... Dinner ..."

"Space wants to kill you."

"Ready. Aim. Pew! Pew!"

Another new, really cool-looking gadget in a desperate search for a problem to solve.

The Thinker

'The future of medicine' "It's genomics." "I'd say proteins." "Same as always: economics."

Man and dog on their hover boards.

Old MacDonald had a data farm. AI AI O.

A world choked with people mindlessly on the move

Robot Robber

'When I grow up, I want to be an astronaut and go to the moon: It's made of cheese you know!'

Nuclear energy.

AI Summit

Books and Phones