Where's My Jetpack?: A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future That Never Arrived
It's the twenty-first century and let's be honest--things are a little disappointing. Despite every World's Fair prediction and the advertisements in comic books, 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 moon colonies and servant robots?
In Where's My Jetpack? roboticist Daniel H. Wilson takes a hilarious look at the future we imagined for ourselves. You will learn which technologies are already available, and if the technology is not public, you will learn how to build, buy, or steal it. Where's My Jetpack? is an entertaining look at the world that we always wanted.
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Daniel H. Wilson has worked in top research laboratories, including Microsoft Research, the Palo Alto Research Center, and Intel Research Seattle. He was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and earned a B.S. in computer science from the University of Tulsa and a Ph.D. in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
Stefan Rudnicki first became involved with audiobooks in 1994. Now a Grammy-winning audiobook producer, he has worked on more than three thousand audiobooks as a narrator, writer, producer, or director. He has narrated more than three hundred audiobooks. A recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, he was presented the coveted Audie Award for solo narration in 2005, 2007, and 2014, and was named one of AudioFile's Golden Voices in 2012.
[A]n amusing look at technological innovations that haven't quite come to be...Where's My Jetpack?...is surprisingly informative.
-- "Oregonian"Wilson's tone is humorous, yet he does justice to the science underlying his topic with quick, clear, sound explanations.
-- "Seattle Times"Clinically depressed fans of Star Trek and The Jetsons, take heart: the future you've been dreaming of-ray guns, robot maids, unisex jumpsuits, space vacations-is ready for production...[Wilson] isn't trading in idle speculation; among plenty of jokes and silliness he deals in solid-and fascinating-science...plenty of encouragement and info for frustrated futurists.
-- "Publishers Weekly""Stefan Rudnicki delivers another quality narration. One of Wilson's goals with both of his books was to take the material so seriously that absurdity shows through. Rudnicki understood this, and provided narration to match. Funny stuff."
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- PublisherBlackstone Audiobooks
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0786169214
- ISBN 13 9780786169214
- BindingAudio CD
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