Where's My Jetpack?
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (776 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1596911360 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-27 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"More humor than science, but that's okay." according to Logical Thinker. If you're of a certain age such that you remember the various magazines of the late 50's and the 60's that promised great things in the "future", then you'll find yourself saying "Oh yeahFood PillsDomed CitiesAqua Gills. Hmmmmmwhat ever happened to all that stuff?" as you flip through the chapters. So natural. "The FUTURE" according to Michael Valdivielso. This book deals with such ideas as hover cars, robot servants, and underwater hotels. And why some never got off the ground while others, while they exist, don't exist in the huge numbers they should. For example, we do have underwater hotels, well, a few, but nowhere near enough to make everybody happy. I wa. Linda B. said Fun book. Took me awhile to find it. Fun book. Took me awhile to find it.
He is the author of How to Survive a Robot Uprising. Daniel H. Wilson, Ph.D, has a degree in Robotics from Carnegie-Mellon. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
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. He lives in Portland, Oregon.. 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. You will learn which technologies are already available, who made them, and where to find them. He exposes technology, spotlights existing prototypes, and reveals drawing-board plans. He is the author of How to Survive a Robot Uprising. 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. It's the twenty-first century and let's be honest-things are
Sort of. In his introduction, author and robotics expert Wilson (How to Survive a Robot Uprising) sets forth a pledge: "If the technology is possible-even remotely so-this book will lay it out," gamely ignoring "any potentially catastrophic consequences." Happily, this Ph.D. For instance, it turns out that teleportation can work, and in fact already has: exploiting an obscure (and complicated) rule of quantum physics, scientists achieved, under lab conditions, the teleportation of a single photon in 1993. . Though readers of this slim guide may not be inspired to "raise your voice, and demand your personal jetpack," it's got plenty of encouragement and info for frustrated futurists. That's the premise of this tongue-in-cheek look at all the techno-wonders that 21st century man was promised by sci-fi dreamers of the past. isn't trading in idle speculation; among plenty of jokes and silliness he deals in solid-and fascinating-science. Wilson goes on to explain (or debunk