Where’s my jetpack?

Based on pop sci-fi and my best estimates, we should be living in swingin’ 70’s-esque space stations and having robot butlers serve our every need. So what’s the deal, scientists? “Where’s My Jetpack?” seems like a valid question at this point (and also makes for a great t-shirt!) and sounds like it would make a damned interesting book, too. [via Fimoculous]

In Where’s My Jetpack?, roboticist Daniel H. Wilson takes a hilarious look at the future we always imagined for ourselves. He exposes technology, spotlights existing prototypes, and reveals drawing-board plans. You will learn which technologies are already available, who made them, and where to find them. If the technology is not public, you will learn how to build, buy, or steal it. And if doesn’t yet exist, you will learn what stands in the way of making it real.

May 17, 2007 | Filed Under Uncategorized