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Where's My Jetpack?: A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future That Never Arrived by Daniel H Wilson (Paperback / softback, 2007)

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It's the twenty-first century and let's be honest-things are a little disappointing. Despite every World's Fair prediction, every futuristic ride at Disneyland, and the advertisements on the last page of every comic book, we are t living the future we were promised. By w, life was supposed to be a fully automated, atomic-powered, germ-free Utopia, a place where a grown man could wear a velvet spandex unitard and t be laughed at. Where are the ray guns, the flying cars, and the hoverboards that we expected? What happened to our promised moon colonies? Our servant robots? In Where's My Jetpack?, roboticist Daniel H. Wilson takes a hilarious look at the future we always imagined for ourselves. He exposes techlogy, spotlights existing prototypes, and reveals drawing-board plans. You will learn which techlogies are already available, who made them, and where to find them. If the techlogy is t public, you will learn how to build, buy, or steal it. And if doesn't yet exist, you will learn what stands in the way of making it real. With thirty entries spanning everything from teleportation to self-contained skyscraper cities, and superbly illustrated by Richard Horne ( 101 Things to Do Before You Die ), Where's My Jetpack? is an endlessly entertaining, one-of-a-kind look at the world that we always wanted. Daniel H. Wilson, Ph.D, has a degree in Robotics from Carnegie-Mellon. He is the author of How to Survive a Robot Uprising. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-10
1596911360
ISBN-13
9781596911369
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Daniel H Wilson
Format
Trade Paperback (US) ,Sewn, Paperback / Softback
Language
English
Topic
Humour: Collections & General

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Author Biography
Daniel H. Wilson, Ph.D, has a degree in Robotics from Carnegie-Mellon. He is the author of How to Survive a Robot Uprising. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
Date of Publication
24/04/2007
Country of Publication
United States

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by dbzfanniki110 May, 2009
A comical look at the future that has yet to come.
This great book list many of the technologies and other thing that we were promised we'd have by now but don't. From Hoverboards and flying cars to moon colonies and underwater hotels. This book gives a comical look at all these item from the promise to the realty and outlook. A short read but very entertaining.
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by igelstellung11 Sep, 2009
Program book for technocratic minds
Very well written, with many historical references. The jetpack section is somewhat outdated, but considering the fact that the Earth does not stand still... A joy to read in any case :)

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