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