Where's My Jetpack? A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future That Never Arrived

Name: Where's My Jetpack? A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future That Never Arrived
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ISBN: 9781596911369

ISBN-10: 1596911360

ISBN-13: 9781596911369

Edition: 2007

Authors: Daniel H. Wilson, Richard Horne, Daniel Wilson

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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 not living the future we were promised. By now, 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 not 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…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 4/24/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English