Author: BADDIEL, IVOR; ZUCKER, JONNY
Title: Never in a million years: a history of hopeless predictions from the beginning to the end of the world / Ivor Baddiel and Jonny Zucker
Description: London: Orion 2011. 1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 257 p. : ill.; 21 cm. Summary; The first end of the world prediction was recorded one second after the Big Bang and since then it has become the daddy of all predictions with. to date. no one getting it right. And human beings have been around for about 200.000 years. with very little evolutionary difference. and yet we still haven't developed X-Ray eyes or the ability to fly. In this book. Baddiel and Zucker examine the predictions that have been made since the dawn of time on a variety of subjects. from the end of the world and the human body. to global warming. robots in the workplace. teleportation and space exploration. With a witty and fresh tone. they examine how these predictions came about and why. and rate them for retrospective accuracy. Review: 'The authors take wry pleasure in highlighting some of the more spectacularly off-beam predictions from those who should have known better.' MAIL ON SUNDAY. Subjects; Social prediction - History. Prophecies. Prophecies - History. Humour; Social forecasting. futurology; Social & cultural history. HUMOR / General. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Future Studies. Weight in Kg appr.:

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