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Where Is My Flying Car? (Hardcover)
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Where Is My Flying Car? (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R555
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From an engineer and futurist, an impassioned account of
technological stagnation since the 1970s and an imaginative
blueprint for a richer, more abundant future. The science fiction
of the 1960s promised us a future remade by technological
innovation. We'd vacation in geodesic domes on Mars, have
meaningful conversations with computers, and drop our children off
at school in flying cars. Fast-forward 60 years, and we're still
stuck in traffic in gas-guzzling sedans and boarding the same types
of planes we flew in over half a century ago. What happened to the
future we were promised? In Where Is My Flying Car?, J. Storrs Hall
sets out to answer this deceptively simple question. What starts as
an examination of the technical limitations of building flying cars
evolves into an investigation of the scientific, technological, and
social roots of the economic stagnation that started in the 1970s.
From the failure to adopt nuclear energy and the suppression of
cold fusion technology to the rise of a counterculture hostile to
progress, Hall recounts how our collective ambitions for the future
were derailed, with devastating consequences for global wealth
creation and distribution. He then outlines a framework for a
future powered by exponential progress-one in which we build as
much in the world of atoms as we do in the world of bits, one rich
in abundance and wonder. Drawing on years of original research and
personal engineering experience, Where Is My Flying Car?,
originally published in 2018, is an urgent, timely analysis of
technological progress over the last 50 years and a bold vision for
a better future.
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