That Buck Rogers Stuff - by Jerry Pournelle (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>The year was 1977. Elon Musk was in First Grade. Jeff Bezos was in early puberty just reading SCIFI books, not selling them. The space shuttle was 4 years away and the last Apollo mission was 5 years past. Yet a wonky aerospace engineer and college professor was asking How Do We Get Back to Space and What Do We Do Once We Are Up There?</p><p><br></p><p>Here in <em>That Buck Rogers Stuff</em> Jerry Pournelle lays out his fascination with technological solutions for the world's 1978 problems and beyond.</p><p>Written on an IBM Selectric typewriter during an Analog time, these predictions will later be fully explored in classics like <em>Starswarm</em> which introduced Artificial Intelligence or <em>The Mote in Gods Eye</em> exploring the societal effects of a 1000 year library as a precursor for cloud computing.</p>
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