Future and Why We Should Avoid It: Killer Robots, the Apocalypse and Other Topics of Mild Concern - Brossura

Feschuk, Scott

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ISBN 10: 1771620331 ISBN 13: 9781771620338

Casa editrice: Douglas & McIntyre Ltd, 2015

Riassunto

The future holds many unknowns: advances in medical technology, increased airport security and critical new inventions like sentient, polygraph-enabled, wireless toasters. Luckily,Macleans columnist Scott Feschuk has written a survival guide part how-to manual, part product guide, part apocalypse analysis and part sardonic observation to help us navigate these troubled times. Or at least make us laugh while we try.The Future and Why We Should Avoid It envisions the daunting, depressing era we have to look forward to with the best of Feschuks musings on aging, death, technology, inventions, health and leisure. Combining quizzes, voiceovers and speeches, and employing snark, innuendo, toilet humor and shameless mockery because how else do you cope with the fact that one day you will die? Feschuk contemplates the fate of humanity and the planet in the upcoming years, poking fun, provoking thought and dredging up silver linings in even the darkest forecasts.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Scott Feschuk is the author of two previous books, Searching For Michael Jacksons Nose (McClelland Stewart, 2003) andHow Not to Completely Suck as a New Parent (McClelland Stewart, 2004, with Paul Mather). He is the two-time winner of the Gold Award for Humour at the National Magazine Awards and has written forMacleans, Sportsnet, the Globe and Mail, National Post andThis Hour Has 22 Minutes. Feschuk was also chief speechwriter for former Prime Minister Paul Martin.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Douglas & McIntyre Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1771620331
• ISBN 13: 9781771620338
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 304
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile