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THAT BUCK ROGERS STUFF IBD

CHAOS MANOR
01 / 2021
9789527303252
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Sinopsis

The year was 1977.áElon Musk was in First Grade.áJeff Bezos was in early puberty just reading SCIFIábooks, not selling them.áThe space shuttle was 4 years away and the last Apollo mission was 5 years past. Yet a wonky aerospace engineer and college professor was askingáHow Do We Get Back to SpaceáandáWhat Do We Do Once We Are Up There?Here ináThat Buck Rogers StuffáJerry Pournelle lays out his fascination with technological solutions for the worldâÇÖs 1978 problems and beyond.Written on an IBM Selectric typewriter during an Analog time, these predictions will later be fully explored in classics likeáStarswarmáwhich introduced Artificial Intelligence oráThe Mote in Gods Eyeáexploring the societal effects of a 1000 year library as a precursor for cloud computing.