
Where's My Jetpack?
A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future That Never Arrived
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Stefan Rudnicki
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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Critic reviews
"Will produce sly chuckles....surprisingly informative." (The Oregonian)
Worse, there's still futurism here disconnected from the cultural and social world that propels the subject. The zest for the Reasons Why at the beginning break down and pretty soon we're being regaled with stories of the absurd fantastic. So we're building houses on artificial islands in the Gulf? How's the market for that going? What's the environmental impact? Underwater hotels? The rooms exist but they're not doing brisk business.
In the meantime, James Cameron shoots to the bottom of the ocean in a torpedo sub.
Hopefully Wilson is working on a follow-up--rather than a new forward--that cuts a little deeper than this light compendium.
Starting to Date Itself
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slightly dated, but very funny
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Serious Fun!
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Delightful
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Pulp science fiction as reviewed by your science teacher
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Instead the book is a rather systematic exploration of the real science behind the top 40 childhood tech. fanatics of the baby boomers. It's meant to be a light fun read; a summer book for the balding or graying geek. It succeeds.
Just Lots of Fun
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Informative and funny
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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Yes, I would recommend it as an entertaining and enlightening read/listening experience. Some of my lifelong questions were answered. Now I known why we are not commuting by jetpack. (Sigh.) Other glowing promises that teased us over the years and never came to be were also explained and laid to rest.Who was your favorite character and why?
Not a book about characters per se.Which scene was your favorite?
Again, not arranged around scenes.Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
Not really. This isn't an emotion-based book. But it was far from dull or dry. I liked it a lot.Any additional comments?
This is a book worth reading or listening to. As a baby boomer, I can remember many of these concepts and products being announced on the news decades ago. I enjoyed hearing what became of them. This was a great idea for a book.I always wanted my own jetpack!
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