You Call This the Future?

Nick Sagan

• 01 april 2008
• 9781556526855

Samenvatting:

Examining the 50 coolest, most stylish, and most popular futuristic inventions, this handbook peers through the lens of today&;s science, looking at which ones have become reality and how they work, and which are still in the imagined future&;will we ever get to ride our jetpacks? From prototype to realization, the technological evolution of each invention&;such as the Star Trek communicator, which has become today&;s cell phone; the robot pets of Dr. Who; Vanilla Sky's cryonics; and even Sleeper&;s orgasmatron&;is charted in this veritable history of the future.