Ideas (both ingenious and totally goofy), drastic extremes, nasty innuendos, laughs-up-sleeve, future schlock and subtle horror (you know at least some are gonna happen no matter what) make up this collection of snidely captioned drawings of proposed technology. Nifty, nasty, and occasionally hysterically funny. --J. Baldwin

Public Therapy Buses, Information Specialty bums, Solar Cook-A-Mats and Other Visions of the 21st Century Steven Johnson, 1991; 128pp. $7.95 ($9.95 postpaid) from publishers Book & Audio, P.O. Box 120159, Staten Island, NY 10312; 800/288-2131 (or Whole Earth Access)