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Summary: Delicious....don't wait another moment to order this one!
Review: "Intensely informative, thought provoking, humorous, irreverant, historical, futuristic, with an immense overview of the present......
Vastly broadens the readers conversational skills
without the text book side effect of "cotton brain"!
A vicarious journey into the laboratories
and thoughts of the milleniums greatest minds.
Put this on your bedside table and you'll look
forward to getting into bed each night even if you're married!!
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Summary: A joke of a book, but anything with Will Shatner is funny.
Review: Dont buy this book thinking you'll gleen some insight into what is coming in the near future... only buy this book if you like making fun of Capt Kirk as much as I do. The little bits that he actually wrote (trust me, you can almost see the crayon marks) make this book worth having
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Summary: A joke of a book, but anything with Will Shatner is funny.
Review: Dont buy this book thinking you'll gleen some insight into what is coming in the near future... only buy this book if you like making fun of Capt Kirk as much as I do. The little bits that he actually wrote (trust me, you can almost see the crayon marks) make this book worth having
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Summary: An easy, enjoyable read
Review: First let me say that I've been a Star Trek fan since Star Trek priemiered in he 60's, although I preferred Jean-Luc Picard to James Tiberius Kirk. I'm also a technically oriented person, with a background in physics and computer science, so I came to this book already reasonably well informed on most of the topics Shatner wrote about.Despite that, I still enjoyed the book. Shatner and the scientists he spoke to do a good job of explaining in plain English some horrifically complicated and obtuse subject matter. No one should think that they'll walk away from this more with more than a very rudimentary understanding of the basics of, say, Artifical Intelligence, for example, but deep understanding isn't Shatner's goal. Rather, his goals, are to convey some of the wonder of science as well as to warn about the potentially fatal pitfalls that we'll have navigate in the years to come if we are to survive our creations.
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Summary: Fascination with the Future
Review: For this neo-Trekkie with a fascination for the future, "I'm Working on That: A Trek from Science Fiction to Science Fact", is an entertaining look at how our imaginations have converged with reality and how technology is impacting our lives now and will, exponentially, change the way we live tomorrow. The book should resonate even more with those well versed in the toys and voyages of the Enterprise. Chip Walter and William Shatner explore where fiction meets reality in a smart style that is absorbing, tangible, and fun, and will engage the novice futurist as well as those conversant in the theories and foresights of Kurzweil, Moravec, Teller, von Neumann, and their contemporaries.
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Summary: Fun and interesting
Review: Have you ever wondered why certain things work like they do; or perhaps you wonder about how theoretical concepts come to life. In this book, William Shatner does an excellent job of explaining how sci-fi is becoming reality by explaining some rather steep scientific advancements in terms that the general public can understand. A wonderful look book about technology that is all around us, and coming up behind us fast. A must-read for anyone who enjoys asking "how did they do that?"
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Summary: A really insightful book that opens your mind to the future
Review: Have you ever wondered why certain things work like they do; or perhaps you wonder about how theoretical concepts come to life. In this book, William Shatner does an excellent job of explaining how sci-fi is becoming reality by explaining some rather steep scientific advancements in terms that the general public can understand. A wonderful look book about technology that is all around us, and coming up behind us fast. A must-read for anyone who enjoys asking "how did they do that?"
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Summary: THE BEST BOOK EVER!!!
Review: I am a collage student & this book really helped me understand science. It didnt drag along like other science books, it was hilarious also. This is a great book. I think you should get this book P.S. It has GREAT reviews!!!
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Summary: Mind travelling at the speed of thought!
Review: I found the book enlightening, and especially enjoyed the author's style of writing with a practical, down-to-earth, philosophical sense of humor. I felt like I accompanied the Captain, and his sidekick Chip, on their earthbound journey trying to catch a glimpse of the near future. I've never seriously pondered many of the aspects of the universe that they discussed in the book, nor the inventions that may some day help us better understand the meaning of it all. However, after coming to grips with the size of the universe, and the difficulty we'd have if we ever did leave this earthbound orb, I was relieved to learn that we may just as easily take a virtual trip out of the galaxy someday soon. As a baby boomer from the sixties, I want to follow the Moody Blues, who sang about "flying to the sun, without burning a wing." If we can shed this ball and chain we call a body, we may just discover that we can get from here to there without traversing the distance in between. Does anyone know what the speed of thought is? Perhaps this is a subject for another book, at another time? Meanwhile, I encourage you to cozy up with this thought provoking book this autumn, and see what rears up from your own imagination!
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Summary: Is Shatner really so helpless?
Review: I got tired of the running comentary, "I'm so helpless. I'm so clueless. I'm afraid of technology". It didn't help me feel that I could trust the book to be "correct" when it got to the technical parts. Don't get me wrong, the explanations of the technologies in the book are very easy to understand and give some good insight but there was just too much fluff for me. Yes, I am a technical person.
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