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You Call This the Future?
The Greatest Inventions Sci-Fi Imagined and Science Promised
Nick Sagan (Author), Mark Frary (Author), Andy Walker (Author)
YOU CALL THIS THE FUTURE? charts, from prototype to realization, the real-life technical evolution of 50 of the most popular science fiction inventions:
• Jetpack (Buck Rogers)
• Flying cars (The Jetsons)
• Transporters (Star Trek)
• Cyborgs (The Six Million Dollar Man)
• Orgasmatron (Sleeper)
• Artificial intelligence (2001:A Space Odyssey)
• Remote-control robots (Lost in Space)
• Cryonics (Vanilla Sky)
• Warp drives (Star Wars)
• Time travel (Back to the Future)
• Terraforming (Total Recall)
• Robot pets (Dr. Who)
• Cybernetics (Galactic Patrol)
• Space tourism (A Fall of Moondust)
• Wormholes (Stargate)
• Hypnopedia (Brave New World)
Pub Date: Apr 01, 2008
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