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Your Flying Car Awaits - Robot Butlers, Lunar Vacations, and Other Dead-Wrong Predictions of the Twentieth Century (Paperback) Loot Price: R244
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Your Flying Car Awaits - Robot Butlers, Lunar Vacations, and Other Dead-Wrong Predictions of the Twentieth Century (Paperback)

Paul Milo

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Talking dolphins . . . Underwater cities . . . Two-hundred-year life spans . . . Welcome to the present

People have always imagined what life would be like in the future. Most of the time they've been wrong. Often they were really, really wrong. Your Flying Car Awaits looks at the most outrageous predictions from twentieth-century scientists, novelists, and social commentators, detailing the technologies and philosophies that led some great (and not so great)minds to think the ridiculous was achievable. Includes phenomenally inaccurate predictions such as: Space tourism will be ubiquitous by the year 2000Nuclear explosives will be used for commercial demolitionEngineered and man-made oceans will cover the planetWeather will be as predictable and controllable as a train schedule

An eye-opening, fascinating, and endlessly entertaining collection of truly boneheaded scientific predictions from the past hundred years, Your Flying Car Awaits shines an illuminating light on the people of the previous century by examining the ridiculous theories they envisioned about this one.

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Imprint: HarperPerennial
Country of origin: United States
Release date: December 2009
First published: December 2009
Authors: Paul Milo
Dimensions: 203 x 127 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Unsewn / adhesive bound
Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-172460-2
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Popular science
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social research & statistics > Social forecasting, futurology
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LSN: 0-06-172460-2
Barcode: 9780061724602

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