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Arthur C. Clarke's July 20, 2019 Life in 21st Century
Arthur C. Clarke's July 20, 2019 Life in 21st Century
Arthur C. Clarke's July 20, 2019 Life in the 21st Century. Leap into the future for a breathtaking look at life in the 21st century. An astonishing tour of tomorrow with today's greatest science fiction writer. Hardbound with dust jacket. Macmillan Publishing Co. 1986 Second printing. 8 by 10 inches. 281 pages. Location: Shelf 101C
This book is in very good condition. There is some minor edge wear. There is some corner Bumping. The binding is tight with no loose or missing pages. The dust jacket is in good condition showing light edge wear but some rubbing particularly on the back.
Here is the blurb from the dust jacket:
On July 20, 1969, hundreds of millions of people watched Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin take man's first glorious steps on the Moon and usher in the era of space exploration. Fifty years later, to the people of 2019, this date has taken on an even broader significance. It is a watershed event, a representation of a new age for mankind, full of breathtaking technological achievements beyond our wildest dreams.
Welcome to Arthur C. Clarke's July 20, 2019.
Arthur C. Clarke is the world's best-loved science fiction author. His numerous.bestsellers, including 2001: A Space Odyssey, 2010, Childhood's End, and Songs of Distant Earth, have brought him international acclaim as our most innovative and imaginative futurist. And now, from his brilliant vision springs this unprecedented work of futuristic speculation.
Take a guided tour of the future and behold a spectacular panorama of how life will be in the twenty-first century. This visually magnificent book, filled with stunning photos and computer-generated graphics, is a near-miraculous synthesis of science fact and science speculation. Based on the cutting edge of 1980s technology, this is a future that is uncannily realistic, yet the social and technological predictions will astound you.
Here's just some of what you will encounter on July 20, 2019:
- Climb in a twenty-first-century car, a sleek, ultra-smooth plastic egg that repels dents and never needs a tune-up, with on-board navigation and communication tie-ins to the Automobile Club of America.
- Visit a Holorama Cinema for a heart-stopping, three-dimensional movie experience of a lifetime, or turn on the TV, where you can superimpose your own image on your favorite character.
- Read the sports page: There's Yankee scout Don Mattingly reporting on the upcoming World Series with the Los Angeles Dodgers, whose pitchers throw 120-mile-per-hour fastballs with the help of bionic implants, as well as an account of the Space Cup, a race around the Moon using solar sails.
- Accompany astronaut Bonnie Dunbar on a spellbinding adventure aboard the space station Magellan, permanently orbiting hundreds of miles above the Earth.
- Settle down in your living room, where your house, sensing your mood, adjusts the blinds, selects music, and brews coffee with the exact amount of caffeine necessary to get you through the day.
- Check in with the psychiatrist, where you'll design your own dreams and shape them like a Hollywood director, with the help of your analyst-a T1343 mainframe computer.
- Witness the incredible yet chillingly realistic scenario for a Third World War, an electronic conflict whose outcome is as unexpected as it is unforgettable.
- And much more.
Astonishing in its implications, dazzling in accuracy, scope, and immediacy, this dramatic, fully fleshed out portrait of the twenty-first century is a time machine between covers that will launch you into a future as wondrous and compelling as you've ever imagined.
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