Author: David Manning
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105575799
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
David Manning wrote A Brief History of the Recent Future in the mid 1970s with the idea of satirizing the present by forecasting the most bizarre imaginable future. The result was a verbally animated cartoon tracing the evolution of an apocalyptic conflict between proponents of ganic garbage vs those advocating ficial garbage as civilization's final energy resource. Along the way, the tale introduces such absurdities as a credit-system economy; the Bronx Sanitation Air Force; a 3,000-acre rubber-raft island named Carabia; a news toaster that burns headlines onto breakfast bread; and people metabolically transformed by Mango Tango, the core building block of the artificial ecosystem. Resurrected from the past, the book remains, after 35-plus years, a satiric fantasy, now looking back at the odd events nobody knows transpired but brought us to our increasingly dystopian state. Once the harbinger of a future too ridiculous to contemplate, the original bizarre predictions resonate more every day.
A Brief History of the Recent Future
Author: David Manning
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105575799
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
David Manning wrote A Brief History of the Recent Future in the mid 1970s with the idea of satirizing the present by forecasting the most bizarre imaginable future. The result was a verbally animated cartoon tracing the evolution of an apocalyptic conflict between proponents of ganic garbage vs those advocating ficial garbage as civilization's final energy resource. Along the way, the tale introduces such absurdities as a credit-system economy; the Bronx Sanitation Air Force; a 3,000-acre rubber-raft island named Carabia; a news toaster that burns headlines onto breakfast bread; and people metabolically transformed by Mango Tango, the core building block of the artificial ecosystem. Resurrected from the past, the book remains, after 35-plus years, a satiric fantasy, now looking back at the odd events nobody knows transpired but brought us to our increasingly dystopian state. Once the harbinger of a future too ridiculous to contemplate, the original bizarre predictions resonate more every day.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105575799
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
David Manning wrote A Brief History of the Recent Future in the mid 1970s with the idea of satirizing the present by forecasting the most bizarre imaginable future. The result was a verbally animated cartoon tracing the evolution of an apocalyptic conflict between proponents of ganic garbage vs those advocating ficial garbage as civilization's final energy resource. Along the way, the tale introduces such absurdities as a credit-system economy; the Bronx Sanitation Air Force; a 3,000-acre rubber-raft island named Carabia; a news toaster that burns headlines onto breakfast bread; and people metabolically transformed by Mango Tango, the core building block of the artificial ecosystem. Resurrected from the past, the book remains, after 35-plus years, a satiric fantasy, now looking back at the odd events nobody knows transpired but brought us to our increasingly dystopian state. Once the harbinger of a future too ridiculous to contemplate, the original bizarre predictions resonate more every day.
Foundry Technology
Author: Peter R. Beeley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Evolution of Metal Casting Technologies
Author: Muhammad Azhar Ali Khan
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 331946633X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
This book provides an overview of metal casting technologies starting from its historical evolution to casting design strategies that are being followed today in foundries and other metal casting industries. The details of most of the casting processes and their applications are also included for completeness. Foundry practices such as mold materials and molding techniques, pattern making and cores, furnaces, pouring, cleaning and heat treatment etc. are discussed in detail. Finally, current practices in casting design are demonstrated. Further developments in the field through computational methods and virtual reality are also described.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 331946633X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
This book provides an overview of metal casting technologies starting from its historical evolution to casting design strategies that are being followed today in foundries and other metal casting industries. The details of most of the casting processes and their applications are also included for completeness. Foundry practices such as mold materials and molding techniques, pattern making and cores, furnaces, pouring, cleaning and heat treatment etc. are discussed in detail. Finally, current practices in casting design are demonstrated. Further developments in the field through computational methods and virtual reality are also described.
... A Brief History of Printing ...
Author: Frederick William Hamilton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
A Brief History of Printing in America
Author: Frederick William Hamilton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
The Great Industries of the United States: Being an Historical Summary of the Origin, Growth and Perfection of the Chief Industrial Arts of this Country: by Horace Greeley ... and Other Eminent Writers, Etc
Foundry
A Brief History of Culture
Author: John Shertzer Hittell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Culture
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Culture
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description