This has been sitting on my shelf for a while and I finally got around to it. Unbeknownst to me, this is actually a collection of short stories and editorials that Bova compiled sometime in the 80s, making the opinion pieces a bit dated. Rather than detract from the work, however, the age of the editorials made the reading of this work that much more enjoyable, since Bova predicts quite a few things with uncanny accuracy (the ubiquity of the Internet and hand-held info devices and the sieve-like effect they would have on the info-borders of oppressive states) while missing the mark on some others (he seemed convinced that the USSR would last forever, by his tone). This made the book simultaneously an exercise in future thinking and a history lesson, granting an extra layer of richness to the experience that would have been missed had I read it anytime prior to the early 2000s.
