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Where's My Jetpack?: A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future that Never Arrived Taschenbuch – 24. April 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 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 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.
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.
- Seitenzahl der Print-Ausgabe192 Seiten
- SpracheEnglisch
- HerausgeberBloomsbury USA
- Erscheinungstermin24. April 2007
- Abmessungen12.32 x 1.5 x 20.24 cm
- ISBN-109781596911369
- ISBN-13978-1596911369
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- ASIN : 1596911360
- Herausgeber : Bloomsbury USA; Erste Ausgabe Edition (24. April 2007)
- Sprache : Englisch
- Taschenbuch : 192 Seiten
- ISBN-10 : 9781596911369
- ISBN-13 : 978-1596911369
- Artikelgewicht : 340 g
- Abmessungen : 12.32 x 1.5 x 20.24 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 2.138.202 in Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Bücher)
- Nr. 500 in Ingenieurswesen Patente & Erfindungen
- Nr. 2.392 in Geschichte der Technologie
- Nr. 15.152 in Satire
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Daniel H. Wilson is a Cherokee citizen and author of the New York Times bestselling Robopocalypse its sequel Robogenesis, and many other books, including How to Survive a Robot Uprising, Amped, and The Clockwork Dynasty. He earned a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as Masters degrees in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. His latest novel is The Andromeda Evolution, an authorized sequel to Michael Crichton's groundbreaking The Andromeda Strain. Wilson lives in Portland, Oregon.
You can visit his website at www.danielhwilson.com
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Bewertet in den USA am17. November 2008This 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 want robotic maids, I want X-Ray specs, I want teleportation! Fun, full of facts and hopeful. Soon, soon we WILL have all this stuff. It just may take longer than we thought.
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Bewertet in den USA am18. Mai 2007This book is classified as humor, and indeed it is very amusing. The ironic tone is maintained well, and the occasional jokes have a pretty good batting average at really being funny. However, the book is also quite factual in its discussions of the current state of progress on the various "Wonders of Tomorrow". Since so much of this involves actual robots, rocket planes, jetpacks, etc., that exist today (or at least existed at one time), you really want to see photos of these things. There are none at all in the book.
By the way, I'm still waiting for the solar-powered electro-suspension car that I saw on the old "Disneyland" TV show.
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Bewertet in den USA am19. November 2020My son has read other books from this author and really enjoyed them. Easy transaction, item as described by seller. Would buy again.
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Bewertet in den USA am7. Juli 2009If 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 yeah...Food Pills...Domed Cities...Aqua Gills. Hmmmmm...what ever happened to all that stuff?" as you flip through the chapters. So naturally, anyone younger than 40 has no frame of reference to the basis for the book and would probably wonder why older people were so silly "back then". Oh well.
Anyway, the stories are a mix of history, science updates, and a humorous take on what happens when naive science fiction and real science collide. It's that collision that keeps us from living under the ocean in glass cites or flying through the air in our anti-gravity cars or our jetpacks. But the most interesting aspect of the book is where the author discusses some old flight-of-fancy that has somewhat of come true in our day, even if it's not in the manner that was envisioned by the futurists of 50 years ago.
A fun book, easy to read.
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Bewertet in den USA am3. März 2021I bought this book as a used book but it was in perfect condition just like brand new.
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Bewertet in den USA am26. Januar 2013I remember when I was young we were promised so many things by the year 2000. I was realy looking forward to having a jet pack and or a flying car. 2000 came and went and we still don't have these things. I feel a little cheated. This book captured that a little.
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Bewertet in den USA am2. März 2019Thank you for putting in all the hours of research. I think the title of your next book should be, "Where's my tricorder."
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Bewertet in den USA am21. Januar 2010This isn't a traditional book, but more of a Reader's Digest style collection of 2-4 page overviews of different technological subjects. It is an interesting look back on ideas that humans expended time and brain power on (in some cases a lot of each) that never really became part of mainstream society. I liked the fact that I could put it down and pick it back up a week later and never get lost, since each review is self contained.
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Belinda ThirkettleBewertet in Großbritannien am 26. Dezember 20185,0 von 5 Sternen Compulsive read
Compulsive reading
Peer SylvesterBewertet in Deutschland am 15. Juli 20094,0 von 5 Sternen Informativ und Witzig
"Where's my Jetpack?" geht den Science-Fiction Klischees der 40er und 50er Jahre nach: Was ist wirklich geworden aus dem Jetpack, den Unterwasserhotels und der Röntgenbrille? Und überraschend oft lautet die Antwort: Gibt es schon, hat sich aber nicht durchgesetzt! Oder "Gibt es schon, aber in anderer Form als damals gedacht" (z.B. Rollende Bürgersteige sind heute auf jedem Flughafen zu finden - sie heißen nur anders). Die Zusammenstellung ist sinnvoll und das Buch ist gut recherchiert. Sehr oft hab ich gedacht: "Das gibts wirklich schon?" In den Fällen, in denen die Technik noch nicht so weit ist, gibt der Autor den Stand der Forschung an und zeigt Wege auf, ob und wie das "Ziel" erreicht werden könnte. Inhaltlich ist das Buch also wirklich gut. Es ist allerdings nicht wirklich dick und hat es an ein bis zwei langen Nachmittagen wohl durch.
Der Stil des Autoren ist dabei gewöhnungsbedürftig - mir gefällt er zwar, aber die ironischen Bemerkungen passen hier etwas weniger als in den Roboter-Büchern. Dennoch: Durchaus empfehlenswert, wenn einem die Materie interessiert.
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Owen Phillips 2Bewertet in Großbritannien am 20. November 20124,0 von 5 Sternen Zoom!
Good book, some great gadgets and devices (which I really wish were here now!) but a little sparse on content - large print so less content
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StuartBewertet in Großbritannien am 29. Juli 20155,0 von 5 Sternen Great book. It's too short
Great book. It's too short...because it's so addictive! If you're a geek you'll like it.