<blockquote> <p>Talking dolphins . . . Underwater cities . . . Two-hundred-year life spans . . . Welcome to the present!</p> </blockquote> <p>People have always imagined what life would be like in the future. Most of the time they've been wrong. Often they were really, really wrong. <i>Your Flying Car Awaits</i> looks at the most outrageous predictions from twentieth-century scientists, novelists, and social commentators, detailing the technolo-gies and philosophies that led some great (and not so great) minds to think the ridiculous was achievable. Includes phenomenally inaccurate predictions such as:</p> <ol> <li>Space tourism will be ubiquitous by the year 2000</li> <li>Nuclear explosives will be used for commercial demolition</li> <li>Engineered and man-made oceans will cover the planet</li> <li>Weather will be as predictable and controllable as a train schedule</li> </ol> <p>An eye-opening, fascinating, and endlessly entertaining collec-tion of truly boneheaded scientific predictions from the past hundred years, <i>Your Flying Car Awaits</i> shines an illuminating light on the people of the previous century by examining the ridiculous theories they envisioned about this one.</p>