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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:
- 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
- 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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Descripción Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. A delightful mixture of science fiction, utopian vision, and just plain crazy ideas, Your Flying Car Awaits is a hilarious and insightful compendium of the most outrageous and completely ridiculous predictions of the 20th Century. Award-winning journalist Paul Milo's collection of Robot Butlers, Lunar Vacations, and Other Dead-Wrong Predictions of the Twentieth Century is true history on the lighter side, a must for fans of Ken Davis and his bestselling Don't Know Much About series as well as the popular Darwin Awards books. For an unforgettable journey back through the misguided scientific mindset of the previous century, climb aboardYour Flying Car Awaits! Offers a look 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. This book examines some of the most outrageous predictions over the last 100 years. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9780061724602
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