You Call This the Future?: The Greatest Inventions Sci-Fi
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Sagan, Nick / Frary, Mark / Walker, Andy, PUBLISHER: Chicago Review Press, Examining <strong>thestrong> 50 coolest, most stylish, and most popular futuristic inventions, this handbook peers through <strong>thestrong> lens of today's science, looking at which ones have become reality and how <strong>thestrong>y work, and which are still in <strong>thestrong> imagined future--"will we ever get to ride our jetpacks"? From prototype to realization, <strong>thestrong> technological evolution of each invention--such as <strong>thestrong> "Star Trek "communicator, which has become today's cell phone; <strong>thestrong> robot pets of "Dr. Who;" "Vanilla Sky's" cryonics; and even "Sleeper"'s orgasmatron--is charted in this veritable history of <strong>thestrong> future.