You Call This the Future?: The Greatest Inventions Sci-Fi Imagined and Science Promised

by Nick Sagan, Mark Frary, Andy Walker

Examining the 50 coolest, most stylish, and most popular futuristic inventions, this 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— will 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 this veritable history of the future.

160 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2008

Reviews

[Shawn · Rating 2 out of 5]

Cool concept, pretty simple execution.