Jul 12
Click for full imageWes’ Art Direction:
Editor – “Look I’ve gotta hang up. The cover just needs to have the authors’ names, then ‘The Web’ in a subtle font and 2027 undern-”
Graphic Designer – “What? Sorry, your signal’s breaking up again I can’t..”
Editor – “I said put THE! WEB!! and TWENTY-TWENTY-SEVEN on it!!!… ah crap i dropped my cigar, now my chair’s ON FIRE!!”
Published 1999
(Average: 6.36 out of 10)
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July 12th, 2012 at 11:10 am
I suppose “The Net” was taken? And “The Information Superhighway” wouldn’t fit on the cover?
July 12th, 2012 at 12:12 pm
I never got to this one: reading the first two thousand and twenty-six volumes of this series was more than enough for me.
July 12th, 2012 at 12:42 pm
I can see this book…on the “business” shelves.
July 12th, 2012 at 4:40 pm
In 2027, the World Wide Web will be powered by a glowing circuit board encased in a ball of fire blasting out names of mid-list sci-fi authors. Awesome!
July 12th, 2012 at 6:24 pm
How come only the B’s are alphabetized?
July 12th, 2012 at 7:57 pm
“How come only the B’s are alphabetized?”
If I had to guess, Maggie Furey’s name is positioned there so it will be in larger letters and give greater prominence to the only featured female author.
July 12th, 2012 at 8:39 pm
You think this is bad? You should’ve seen the art for the ‘Gopher 2017’ volume I edited about a decade ago.
July 12th, 2012 at 11:35 pm
Spiderman’s appointment diary was minute accurate.
July 17th, 2012 at 8:10 pm
Is this a text book, kind of like “Internetting for Dummies v.2027”?
July 18th, 2012 at 3:52 pm
One of mine I’m afraid. Not offering excuses.
December 3rd, 2013 at 4:51 pm
Man, the new version of Internet Explorer is hot. LITERALLY! (rim shot)
December 4th, 2013 at 8:08 am
“THE WEB: 2027 takes you into the future of the Internet, where anything is possible! Experience download times of mere seconds! See infinite numbers of videos of cats doing cute things! Flame wars fought with real flamethrowers! All this and more in the distant future of 2027…”
August 27th, 2015 at 2:31 am
I wonder if this qualifies for the “gibberish title” tag? Because it doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.
June 6th, 2017 at 9:16 am
Did anyone in this book predict Presidental Twitter feeds?
June 6th, 2017 at 10:20 pm
@ARY: Hopefully by 2027, we won’t have those.
At least not the ranty covfefe sort.
September 12th, 2019 at 5:11 pm
ON THE WEB IN 2027…
– …fanatics will murder you for not clicking Likes of their cat pictures.
– …the Trump family will sell bitcoin schemes… and national parks.
– …Russian Internet trolls will spread the conspiracy theory that the Earth is banana-shaped. Their believers will number in the millions.
– …it will be possible to order cloned organs from Amazon, delivered by drones. The transplant surgery will be performed by robots – who in a shocking twist turn out to be indentured human Amazon employees, dressed up as machines.
– …Mark Zuckerberg’s Web presence will be replaced with a computer simulation, and people will compliment him for how “warm” and “human” he’s become.