If you're reading this, the future has already arrived! (That's the great thing about a three-week printing schedule.) But don't blame us if there aren't any flying cars whizzing past your window yet. We're just here to present the predictions--like how, in the future, you'll be able to grow your own organs, vacation in space, chow down on levitating food, and drive a (possibly flying) car that's fueled by, oh, whatever you happen to have handy. Also, in the more immediate future, you'll read an article about all of those things.

Features:
• GOVERNMENTS FUND THE DARNEDEST THINGS: 7 OF THE LARGEST, ODDEST, AND MOST USELESS STATE PROJECTS IN THE WORLD
• A WALK ON THE FAR SIDE: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF GARY LARSON
• BOB MARLEY: MUSIC MAN, MAN WITH A MISSION

And feel smart about:
• ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S "PSYCHO"
• EDWARD HOPPER'S "NIGHTHAWKS"
• THE FUTURE OF BIRTH CONTROL: HOW THE MALE PILL WILL WORK
• 50-Cent Tour:Jamaica
• [the_dead guy interview] with Sun Tzu

+ a "Television" scatterbrained, a Know-It-All's look at the letter K, a 25-question quiz to end all quizzes, and more!