In his children’s book “2095,” Jon Scieszka portrays the future as one saturated with three-dimensional, robotic advertisements, accosting passers-by with products and services tailored to their personalities.

News that their family was moving came as a shock to Michael White, 18, and his sister, Christianna, 16, of Indianapolis. “We just have family meetings where we talk about things, and that came up in one of them,” Michael said. “We just got told that we were moving one day.”