Tamara rose

This is one of my favourite books I first read it the year it was published in 1990 for school and I occasionally will re-read it during a quiet afternoon/evening. What I find fascinating about the story, is thinking about the things that we thought were so futuristic and might never happen (like ai simulation and VR) while reading the book as a teenager and thinking how cool a world would be with that kind of technology, to reading it now in my 40s with this technology already existing. Even just simply the worker opening a newspaper on the train. Tell me the last time you saw anyone read a newspaper on a train, or people carrying briefcases. It’s these small details of a past time that were assumed to still exist in 2154 that make me both smile and have a sense of nostalgia. The warning seems to be just as relevant today as it was in the 90s. However, one could argue that it’s even more poignant today with AI and robots already able to take human jobs and pollution contributing to climate changes. The only difference today would be, as far as we know there isn’t a new planet to start over on. I do wonder if youth today can relate to this book in the same way we did over 20 years ago. So much of the whimsy/fantasy that the book offered is just simply current reality.