The Wonderful Future That Never Was: Flying Cars, Mail Delivery by Parachute, and Other Predictions from the Past
Predicting is a risky business, but for bystanders, faulty forecasts have the makings of great fun. For decades, for instance, the pundits of Popular Mechanics rolled out illustrated features about flying cars and buses, mail-sorting robots, and underground cities that piqued our youthful...
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Predicting is a risky business, but for bystanders, faulty forecasts have the makings of great fun. For decades, for instance, the pundits of Popular Mechanics rolled out illustrated features about flying cars and buses, mail-sorting robots, and underground cities that piqued our youthful interest but didn't always achieve widespread fruition. All these utopian fancies and more reemerge in this refreshingly retro, delightfully rich collection of past predictions of our future. The illustrations alone are worth the price of the book. Every chapter features an introduction by scientist and science fiction writer Gregory Banford.
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Format: Textbook
ISBN:
9781588168221 (1588168220)
ASIN: 9781588168221
Publish date: 05-10-2010
Publisher: Hearst
Edition language: English
Essentially, this is a collection of past predictions of what future advances in technology would bring, as originally published in Popular Mechanics. Think Tomorrowland, at least the new version: the future of the past. It is really neat to read through some of the predictions. Some are true, or cl...
this book was rather disappointing. i only made it about halfway before i lost any real interest in finishing it.
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