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'Where's My Jetpack?' Looks for the Missing Future

NPR
Published May 5, 2007 at 8:00 AM EDT

Roboticist and author Daniel Wilson's new book is: Where's My Jetpack?: A Guide to the Amazing Science Fiction Future That Never Arrived. He speaks with Scott Simon about the fate of technologies from years past that were supposed to be commonplace by now.

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