![]() ![]() The author's narrative voice is conversational, so reading the book is like barstool/family room sofa beer-fueled chats with your best buddy.In my youth, predating the author's by a decade or so, I loved finding the old issues of Popular Mechanix and the others of that stripe in my father's pack-rat piles or the library's musty old boxes. ![]() My Review: A fast-paced, entertaining overview of how Today was supposed to look. 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 scheduleAn 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. ![]() 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. Welcome to the present!People have always imagined what life would be like in the future. Rating: 3.25* of five The Publisher Says: Talking dolphins. ![]()
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