The techno-thriller goes old-school

No one expected the future to be quite this ... well, boring. We were promised jet-packs and space elevators, bionic eyes and walkie-talkies implanted in our wrists. Instead we got the mundane convenience of cell phones, drone warfare, search engines, and Uber Eats. The 21st century is not turning out to be nearly as exciting as the movies had led us to believe. What is exhilarating, though, is to relive what life was like before our fandangled present. A new crop of technothrillers are doing ju...