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by Paul Milo (Author)
A delightful mixture of science fiction, utopian vision, and just plain crazy ideas, Your Flying Car Awaits is a hilarious and insightful compendium of the most outrageous and completely ridiculous predictions of the 20th Century. Award-winning journalist Paul Milo's collection of "Robot Butlers, Lunar Vacations, and Other Dead-Wrong Predictions of the Twentieth Century" is true history on the lighter side, a must for fans of Ken Davis and his bestselling Don't Know Much About(R) series as well as the popular Darwin Awards books. For an unforgettable journey back through the misguided scientific mindset of the previous century, climb aboard--Your Flying Car Awaits!
- Failed Predictions: Explore a hilarious catalog of dead-wrong guesses, from baby factories and sonic dishwashers to the guaranteed cure for the common cold.
- Pop Culture History: Discover why the future promised by shows like The Jetsons and The Six Million Dollar Man never arrived, and what those visions say about the times that created them.
- Science and Technology History: A funny and fascinating look at the brilliant minds who promised us jet-powered cars, domed cities, and lunar colonies--and why they were so sure they were right.
- 20th-Century Predictions: From the dawn of the automobile to the space race, uncover the wildly optimistic and hilariously pessimistic visions that defined a century of looking ahead.
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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 2000
- Nuclear explosives will be used for commercial demolition
- Engineered and man-made oceans will cover the planet
- Weather 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.
