It’s the twenty-first century and let’s be honest—things are
a little disappointing. Despite every World’s Fair
prediction, every futuristic ride at Disneyland, and the
advertisements on the last page of every comic book, we are
not living the future we were promised. By now, life was
supposed to be a fully automated, atomic-powered, germ-free
Utopia, a place where a grown man could wear a velvet
spandex unitard and not be laughed at. Where are the ray
guns, the flying cars, and the hoverboards that we expected?
What happened to our promised moon colonies? Our servant robots?
In Where’s My Jetpack?, roboticist Daniel H. Wilson takes a
hilarious look at the future we always imagined for
ourselves. He exposes technology, spotlights existing
prototypes, and reveals drawing-board plans. You will learn
which technologies are already available, who made them, and
where to find them. If the technology is not public, you
will learn how to build, buy, or steal it. And if doesn’t
yet exist, you will learn what stands in the way of making
it real. With thirty entries spanning everything from
teleportation to self-contained skyscraper cities, and
superbly illustrated by Richard Horne (101 Things to Do
Before You Die), Where’s My Jetpack? is an endlessly
entertaining, one-of-a-kind look at the world that we always
wanted.
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