Steven M. Johnson
The year 2019 represents my 57th as an occasional inventor, whimsicalist and possibilitist. Though creating invention-themed cartoons has been for me nothing more than a sideline business, I’ve never stopped amusing myself by tinkering with ideas for plausible or outrageous products, or by trying to anticipate future trends and inventions. Sometimes I have actually foreseen a trend, as in 1975 when I drew pre-torn clothing, or in 1992 when I drew a product similar to Google Glass, long before others came up with these ideas. I find that many of my 1991 predictions in Public Therapy Buses have come true. Many have not. Some are yet to come true, and they will shock the world.