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The Future of Us is an easy to read. There aren't any fancy words and the plot moves forward—it's about the future, after all—so the story plugs right along. Some of you may be confused as to how a CD-ROM works, or what a cell phone looked like in 1996. But that's about as confusing as it gets, and nothing a quick Google search can't resolve.