Where's My Jetpack?: A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future that Never Arrived
In Where’s My Jetpack?, roboticist Daniel H. Wilson takes a hilarious look at the future we always imagined for ourselves. He exposes technology, spotlights existing prototypes, and reveals drawing-board plans. You will learn which technologies are already available, who made them, and where to find them. If the technology is not 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.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Feb 10, 2008 Type: User Review |
Undoubtedly You've Pondered Where Are Many of These Future Technology Visions? Where's My JetPack? Gives some of the Answers!
There are a few books out there that have mastered the format of providing answers to scientific, medical or everyday myths in an entertaining, therefore easy to read non journal/textbook sounding way. Where's my Jetpack? however is the first of...
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 5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Feb 09, 2008 Type: User Review |
Intelligent and brilliant
"Where's My Jetpack?" is a great book, written in a fresh and cunnig style and with an amazing design. I think it could be an interesting compedium for all the mid-50 sci-fi fans who desire to know something about those incredible inventions they...
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 4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Nov 03, 2007 Type: User Review |
It ended up sitting on top of the toilet tank
It's a thin, thin book of little content. Funny? In places, but this is really a very lightweight little gift book. Someone should write a good take on the missing future, the science fiction that seemed to be near, but never showed up. Start with...
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 3.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Aug 30, 2007 Type: User Review |
The book that asks "why not?"
And it gives you an answer too, although not always the one you want to hear. Wilson looks at inventions that have been "just around the corner" or an accepted part of future life for decades and lays out just why they haven't come about... or at...
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4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Aug 14, 2007 Type: User Review |
Science humor
Carnagie Mellon University PhD, degree in robotics, author of "How to Survive the Robot Uprising" = Daniel Wilson. Wilson takes another foray into the world of books by giving us the ever important question of 'Where's My Jetpack?'. Science...
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4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 15, 2007 Type: User Review |
A very brief overview of pseudo-futuristic inventions
This could have been an excellent book. The idea is great, an overview of how real-life science has dealt with supposedly futuristic inventions such as flying cars, underwater hotels and jetpacks. The author who has a PhD in Robotics is obviously...
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3.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 05, 2007 Type: User Review |
The dream is a live
This book is nice look into the evolution of a revolution.
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| From: Amazon Posted: May 23, 2007 Type: User Review |
Potential Unrealised
I had great hopes of this. Wilson tries too hard. He's not
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3.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: May 22, 2007 Type: User Review |
Yeah, Where The Hell Is My Jetpack?
An excellent look at what happened to all these ideas we were presented with in the 1940's & 50's about how life would be in the 1980's. Unfortunately, even in the 21st Century none of these items has become reality. The author does a great job...
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4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: May 20, 2007 Type: User Review |
Good Insight
I was really drawn in by the stories told in this book. All in all a good purchase for the person who wants to know where the "future" inventions of the past and present lay.
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4.00/5 |
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