Marianne Grosjean's column: Back to the future

In this column, journalist Marianne Grosjean sends a message to our readers. This month, she asks what social traits of our time will entertain future generations in a TV series set in 2075.

Do you remember Mad Men, the series that plunged us into 1960s America, a world where cigarettes were ubiquitous - in offices, buses, doctors' surgeries? Alongside the hairbrushes and brandy glasses at work were other more grating elements, such as groping female employees, belittling blacks or gays, or tossing picnic wrappers into nature with the family, tranquillou-bilou.

Just imagine, fifty years from now. What social traits of our time will entertain future generations in a TV series? Our fusional relationship with smartphones? «They all had their phones on the bus,