Wheres My Jetpack? A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future That Never Arrived

A fun, light look at what science fiction promised & how some of those promises are coming true. It's only a decade old, but already dated. In some ways that was good since it highlights just how fast we're moving. For instance, the changes to the space program are amazing. NASA is no longer plannin......more

Well informed, yet overly chirpy insight into the current state of yesterday’s future today. If you see what I mean, by the author of Robopocalypse, Daniel H Wilson. A timely book this, for I have, more than once, wondered where my jetpack was. This book reminds me that life is a big swizz. Why? When......more

It's the 21st century, and this book provides a humorous look at the science and the secrets and the reasons behind the greatest inventions and futuristic ideas that we never realized or got. Gypped!! However, I say that in the vein of Back to the Future, we did get TWO things that were in the movie......more

It doesn't matter how old you are, at some point when you were young, you probably thought that when you were older, you'd have a personal jetpack, your own robot slave and you'd be able to have sex with a toaster that looks like mom. Or something. But those wonderful developments we were all promis......more

Daniel Wilson has a grievance: All of those great future gimmicks and devices that have been promised to us by books, television, and the movies--why don't we have them? Where are our bathroom-cleaning robots, our flying cars, our invisible camouflage? Why aren't we the Jetsons? This book describes t......more