Future Present

This volume documents a selection of items from the "Millennium Products" chosen by the UK's Design Council as a showcase of ground-breaking work by Britain's leading designers, inventors, manufacturers and retailers. These products exemplify fantastical, futuristic or radically simple solutions to age-old problems and everyday needs. The book fuses visual documentation of the development and practice of these award-winning ideas with in-depth interviews and comments from the inventors, designers, manufacturers and, crucially, the end-users themselves. Its aim is to demonstrate that cutting-edge solutions and high-powered thinking are improving the quality of every aspect of contemporary life – from feeding a baby to identifying computerized data patterns or delivering groceries by pedal-powered taxi.