Let me be up front about it. Im a Feschuk flipper. When my Macleans arrives, I go straight to the back pages and find Scott Feschuks humour column. I bet thousands of subscribers do the same. Feschuk is the countrys funniest wise guy, and most weeks there are laughs in every sentence.

And I can pinpoint the moment I realized that his new book The Future And Why We Should Avoid It: Killer Robots, the Apocalypse and Other Topics of Mild Concern is every bit as delightful as his magazine columns.

It came on page 19, when Feschuk describes Google Glass as a dork monocle the perfect description for what the company claims is a hands-free, voice-activated, augmented-reality headset.

Feschuk takes a sardonic yet sobering look at whats over the horizon for our tech-obsessed culture.But sober is the last thing youll want to be in Feschuks future world, in which microwaves sneer at you and dancing robots play the trumpet when not doing a piss-poor job of vacuuming.

Its even more fun to read about the stuff Apple would be bringing to market if Feschuk ran the company, products such as the iCouch. It lets you update Facebook by shifting your butt, and is marketed as a better version ofGoogle Heinie.

Feschuks timing is perfect, now that personal tech and wearable tech are such a part of our daily experience.

Hes at his sharpest on the arrival of connected appliances.

The iToaster with an embedded GPS so youll never again lose track of your bagel does not exist, not yet anyway, but LG has introduced an oven that can download recipes and display them on a built-in screen, he notes.

And thank heavens for that, because until now there has been no way to obtain recipes other than by computer, iPad, smartphone, book, magazine, cereal box, soup can, memory, guesstimation or grandmother. And who has ever got one of those handy?

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Futurist and funnyman, Scott Feschuk has a new book-type thingy