Your Flying Car Awaits: Robot Butlers, Lunar Vacations, and Other Dead-Wrong Predictions of the Twentieth Century - Softcover

Milo, Paul

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ISBN 10: 0061724602 ISBN 13: 9780061724602

Verlag: Harper Perennial, 2009

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Book by Milo Paul

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For centuries people have been making predictions about the future. Most of these are not only wrong, they are really, really wrong. "Your Flying Car Awaits" looks at the scientists, novelists, and social commentators who throughout the 20th century used their 'expertise' to make a host of terrible, inaccurate, overzealous predictions about what the future would bring. From underwater cities to talking dolphins to 200-year life spans, "Your Flying Car Awaits" covers them all. Examining the most outrageous predictions from the last 100 years in entertaining, bite-sized descriptions, "Your Flying Car Awaits" is organised by type (transportation, the human body). Its individual entries detail the technologies and philosophies of the times that led some great (and not so great) minds think the ridiculous was achievable. Sample Bad Predictions include: Space tourism will be ubiquitous by the year 2000; nuclear explosives will be used for commercial demolition; engineered and man-made oceans will cover the planet; and, weather will be controllable like a train schedule.

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Talking dolphins . . . Underwater cities . . . Two-hundred-year life spans . . . Welcome to the present!

People have always imagined what life would be like in the future. Most of the time they've been wrong. Often they were really, really wrong.Your Flying Car Awaits looks at the most outrageous predictions from twentieth-century scientists, novelists, and social commentators, detailing the technologies and philosophies that led some great (and not so great)minds to think the ridiculous was achievable. Includes phenomenally inaccurate predictions such as:

1. Space tourism will be ubiquitous by the year 2000
2. Nuclear explosives will be used for commercial demolition
3. Engineered and man-made oceans will cover the planet
4. Weather will be as predictable and controllable as a train schedule

An eye-opening, fascinating, and endlessly entertaining collection of truly boneheaded scientific predictions from the past hundred years,Your Flying Car Awaits shines an illuminating light on the people of the previous century by examining the ridiculous theories they envisioned about this one.

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• Verlag: Harper Perennial
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0061724602
• ISBN 13: 9780061724602
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304