Dammit Science, Where's My Hoverboard? is a humorous collection of quotes from famous faces over the last few centuries. Ranging from scorn for the lightbulb - 'Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure' - to ideas on how life would be lived in the year 2000 - 'By the year 2000, housewives will probably have a robot maid shaped like a box with one large eye on top, several arms and hands, and long narrow pads on the side for moving about' - and offering predictions of failure for everything from the automobile - 'The Japanese don't make anything the people in the US would want' - to the iPod - 'By next Christmas the iPod will be dead, finished, gone, kaput.' - the book uses the gift of hindsight to show why one should never say 'never'.
Hilarious visions of the future from the past. Gift book containing humorous quotes and predictions from scientists and other famous faces which didn't quite prove to be true.
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Librería: medimops, Berlin, Alemania
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Librería: Pearlydewdrops, Streat, Reino Unido
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Librería: Stephen White Books, Bradford, Reino Unido
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