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Where's My Jetpack?: A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future that Never Arrived (2007)

por Daniel H. 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 and the advertisements in comic books, 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 moon colonies and servant robots?

In Where's My Jetpack? roboticist Daniel H. Wilson takes a hilarious look at the future we imagined for ourselves. 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, Where's My Jetpack? is an endlessly entertaining, one-of-a-kind look at the world that we always wanted.… (mais)

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A pleasant enough little book that I finished in a matter of hours. It reads more like a series of short, humorous articles out of Popular Science than anything else. The tone is light and breezy, almost funny in spots. Almost scholarly in spots. Don't expect too much and you won't be too disappointed. ( )
  zot79 | Aug 20, 2023 |
Cute idea, well executed. ( )
  dtscheme | Oct 26, 2020 |
An amusing, tongue in cheek look at icons in classic science fiction and how close modern technology has come to achieving them. The design is quite cool, with heavy paper, blue sides and a sci-fi blue, black and silver cover. But in the end, it's still just waiting room material. ( )
2 vote Hamburgerclan | Jun 6, 2011 |
If you are looking for a quick and quirky read then "Where’s My Jetpack" is for you. Have you ever wondered where all those marvellous future inventions that were promised to you as a child have got to? Well this is a funny but factual account of progress so far (or lack of) on many gadgets and machines comic books and science fiction once assured us were just around the corner. Written by Daniel H. Wilson this book covers everything from robot pets to space lasers to teleportation. Having a PhD in Robotics you can be pretty sure he has a firm grasp of the subject material (at very least the robotics elements) and his research has obviously been wide. You may be surprised to read how much progress has been made on some pretty fantastic science and you will almost certainly find Wilson’s humorous style entertaining. In the nicest way possible I would compare his writing to that of many writers of men’s magazines, such as FHM. If you try this book and enjoy it keep a look out for another of Wilsons books, “How to survive a robot uprising”. ( )
1 vote CircAsst | Dec 5, 2009 |
put it down, forgot to pick it up again. Interesting but not so great. Some of these contraptions i never even considered (even though i am a bit of a scifi fan. Some weren't quite informative enough. What has actually been developed is intrigueing though. ( )
  rampaginglibrarian | Nov 17, 2009 |
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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 and the advertisements in comic books, 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 moon colonies and servant robots?

In Where's My Jetpack? roboticist Daniel H. Wilson takes a hilarious look at the future we imagined for ourselves. 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, Where's My Jetpack? is an endlessly entertaining, one-of-a-kind look at the world that we always wanted.

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