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I never really thought of myself as being old enough to have \u00a0historical fiction about my generation, but this book has changed my mind. \u00a0Computers with high speed internet have become so ingrained in my life that I sometimes forget how painfully slow dial-up used to be. \u00a0Kids today might not remember those AOL trial offer CD-ROMS that used to come in the mail and litter customer service counters, but I distinctly remember wondering what the internet would be like \u2014 then fighting with my parents about tying up the phone line when I started to use it! \u00a0And although I was introduced to chat rooms, IMs, and e-mail in much the same way as Emma and Josh, I was not <\/em>able to peer into my future via a mystical connection with my [15-years-in-the-future] Facebook account.<\/p>\n Josh and Emma weren\u2019t sure what to make of it at first. \u00a0Sure, the picture looked a lot like an older version of Emma\u2026 but it had to be a prank. \u00a0Right? \u00a0Once they started to believe that this could possibly be a glimpse into the future, it became increasingly tempting for Emma to try and change the future. \u00a0If Emma saw something indicating that she would become unhappy in the future, she tried to think of what she could change now. \u00a0And while Josh thought his future self seemed pretty happy, he wasn\u2019t so sure about how to handle some of the things he learned about other people. \u00a0It reminded me a bit of\u00a0Back to the Future 2<\/em> with ever-changing Facebook status updates instead of actual time travel. \u00a0A fun read that makes you think? \u00a0Awesome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I never really thought of myself as being old enough to have \u00a0historical fiction about my generation, but this book has changed my mind. \u00a0Computers with high speed internet have become so ingrained in my life that I sometimes forget how painfully slow dial-up used to be. \u00a0Kids today might not remember those AOL trial … Continue reading The Future of Us by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}