Review: Your Flying Car Awaits by Paul Milo

Quick review for a quirky little book: I read Paul Milo’s Your Flying Car Awaits: Robot Butlers, Lunar Vacations, and Other Dead-Wrong Predictions of the Twentieth Centuryfor an assignment, and it’s packed cover to cover with tidbits that continue to make me a fountain of worthless information — like why we don’t drive flying cars even though we can technically make them; how hoverboats are accepted but hoverboards are not; and why doomsday scenarios haven’t come to be (unless you are getting all your food via algae pills).

The book doesn’t come out until December, but if you have a friend who’s a science nut, put it on your holiday list. It’s spot on.