Yesterday's Tomorrows

Автор: Joseph J. Corn, Brian Horrigan

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Johns Hopkins University Press

Наличност: Външен склад в ограничено количество

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Enormous skyscrapers will house residents and workers who happily go "for weeks" without setting foo...

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Автор

Joseph J. Corn, Brian Horrigan

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

1996

страници

176

EAN

9780801853999

ISBN

0801853990

Enbook ID

04708655

Издател

Johns Hopkins University Press

Теглоt

488

Размери

252 x 196 x 10

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Enormous skyscrapers will house residents and workers who happily go "for weeks" without setting foot on the ground. Streamlined, "hurricane-proof" houses will pivot on their foundations like weather vanes. The family car will turn into an airplane so easily that "a woman can do it in five minutes." Our wars will be fought by robots. And our living room furniture-waterproof, of course-will clean up with a squirt from the garden hose. In Yesterday's Tomorrows Joseph J. Corn and Brian Horrigan explore the future as Americans earlier in the last century expected it to happen. Filled with vivid color images and lively text, the book is eloquent testimony to the confidence-and, at times, the naive faith-Americans have had in science and technology. The future that emerges here, the authors conclude, is one in which technology changes, but society and politics usually do not. The authors draw on a wide variety of sources-popular-science magazines, science fiction, world fair exhibits, films, advertisements, and plans for things only dreamed of. From Jules Verne to the Jetsons, from a 500-passenger flying wing to an anti-aircraft flying buzz-saw, the vision of the future as seen through the eyes of the past demonstrates the play of the American imagination on the canvas of the future.

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