Review: Where’s My Jetpack? by Daniel H. Wilson

Today, in January Magazine’s art & culture section, contributing editor Andi Shechter reviews Where’s My Jetpack? by Daniel H. Wilson, the book that answers all of our questions about the extremely disappointing 21st century. Says Shechter:

What Wilson does in Where’s My Jetpack? is take a topic that those of us in the Baby Boomer generation saw in comics, movies, read in novels, watched on television, dreamed of and saw at the Smithsonian or the World’s Fair. He explains what exactly it would take for the ideas to become reality and the state of development of about 30 futuristic ideas ranging from underwater cities to space elevators, from teleportation to x-ray specs. He explains that some of these out-of-this-world ideas absolutely do exist.

The full review is here.