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The future and why we should avoid it : killer robots, the apocalypse and other topics of mild concern / Scott Feschuk.

Title
The future and why we should avoid it : killer robots, the apocalypse and other topics of mild concern / Scott Feschuk.
Author
Feschuk, Scott
Publication
Madeira Park, BC : Douglas & McIntyre, [2014]

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304 pages; 22 cm
Summary
"The future holds many unknowns: advances in medical technology, increased airport security and critical new inventions like sentient, polygraph-enabled, wireless toasters. Luckily, Maclean's 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 Feschuk's 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."--From publisher.
Subject
  • Future, The > Humor
  • Social prediction > Humor
  • Technology > Humor
  • Future, The
  • Social prediction
Genre/Form
Humor
Additional Formats (note)
  • Issued also in electronic format.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- The future and why we should avoid it -- Reason no. 1: Gadgets -- Reason no. 2: Leisure -- Reason no. 3: killer robots -- Reason no. 4: Politics in Canada -- Reason no. 5: our health and bodies -- Reason no. 6: the constants of life -- Reason no. 7: arts and entertainment -- Reason no. 8: politics in the United States -- Reason no. 9: science and space -- Reason no. 10: aging -- Reason no. 11: death
ISBN
  • 9781771620338 (pbk.)
  • 1771620331 (pbk.)
OCLC
  • 887391140
  • SCSB-11239981
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library