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    <body><![CDATA[This was a fun book that looks at all the fantastical elements of &quot;the future&quot; that was promised us in '40s/'50s sci-fi and world's fairs and what happened to those things. You know, flying cars, jetpacks, underwater hotels, ray guns, teleportation, space elevators, stuff like that. Each t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5215476">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It&#8217;s the twenty-first century and let&#8217;s be honest&#8212;things are a little disappointing. Despite every World&#8217;s Fair prediction, every futuristic ride at Disneyland, and the advertisements on the last page of every comic book, 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 promised moon colonies? Our servant robots? <br/> <br/>In <em>Where&#8217;s My Jetpack?</em>, roboticist Daniel H. Wilson takes a hilarious look at the future we always imagined for ourselves. He exposes technology, spotlights existing prototypes, and reveals drawing-board plans. You will learn which technologies are already available, who made them, and where to find them. If the technology is not public, you will learn how to build, buy, or steal it. And if doesn&#8217;t yet exist, you will learn what stands in the way of making it real. With thirty entries spanning everything from teleportation to self-contained skyscraper cities, and superbly illustrated by Richard Horne (<em>101 Things to Do Before You Die</em>), <em>Where&#8217;s My Jetpack?</em> is an endlessly entertaining, one-of-a-kind look at the world that we always wanted.    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Cute and amusing gift book--that's the aim, anyway.  Written by a scientist, but it's impossible to tell from the idiotic write-ups and lame jokes that make some of the most interesting science-fictional ideas (jetpacks, robot servants, universal translators, teleportation) into the most impressivel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70294795">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Where's My Jetpack?: A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future that Never Arrived]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It&#8217;s the twenty-first century and let&#8217;s be honest&#8212;things are a little disappointing. Despite every World&#8217;s Fair prediction, every futuristic ride at Disneyland, and the advertisements on the last page of every comic book, 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 promised moon colonies? Our servant robots? <br/> <br/>In <em>Where&#8217;s My Jetpack?</em>, roboticist Daniel H. Wilson takes a hilarious look at the future we always imagined for ourselves. He exposes technology, spotlights existing prototypes, and reveals drawing-board plans. You will learn which technologies are already available, who made them, and where to find them. If the technology is not public, you will learn how to build, buy, or steal it. And if doesn&#8217;t yet exist, you will learn what stands in the way of making it real. With thirty entries spanning everything from teleportation to self-contained skyscraper cities, and superbly illustrated by Richard Horne (<em>101 Things to Do Before You Die</em>), <em>Where&#8217;s My Jetpack?</em> is an endlessly entertaining, one-of-a-kind look at the world that we always wanted.    &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;]]>
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