Dammit Science, Where's My Hoverboard by ed.Liam Ryan
Dammit Science, Where's My Hoverboard by ed.Liam Ryan
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Author(s): ed.Liam Ryan
Pub: Hardie Grant
Pack Qty: 80 (Paperback)
ISBN: 9781742706559 - New
180mm x 115mm x 11mm
Publication: 1834Pages: 0
Dammit Science, Where's My Hoverboard? is a humorous collection of quotes from famous faces over the last few centuries. Ranging from scorn for the lightbulb - 'Everyone acquainted with the subject will recognize it as a conspicuous failure' - to ideas on how life would be lived in the year 2000 - 'By the year 2000, housewives will probably have a robot maid shaped like a box with one large eye on top, several arms and hands, and long narrow pads on the side for moving about' - and offering predictions of failure for everything from the automobile - 'The Japanese don't make anything the people in the US would want' - to the iPod - 'By next Christmas the iPod will be dead, finished, gone, kaput.' - the book uses the gift of hindsight to show why one should never say 'never'.
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