Jetpack Dreams

Et Tu, Bill Gates?

Don’t let this mouth-watering headline fool you. Because despite what it suggests Microsoft is not, in fact, working on a jetpack. Sure, they have a few other cool things up their nerdy sleeves, but as of this moment, one of those things is not the jetpack of our dreams. So Bill, if you are reading this, let me ask just one question: WHY NOT?

Posted by admin on March 2, 2009 at 6:30 am

Jetpack Dreams explores that most amazing and mysterious of machines.

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"This snappily written, often funny book should attract dreamers of ... all ages."
— Publishers Weekly

"Montandon's entertaining adventures highlight a strange footnote of the space age."
— Booklist

"Reading this book is as fun as zooming through the sky with a rocket on your back. And better yet, you won't break your collarbone doing it."
— A.J. Jacobs, Author of The Know-it-All and The Year of Living Biblically

"Jetpack Dreams is a delightful and engrossing story of the quest for one of humankind's greatest technological fantasies—to strap on a device and fly like a bird."
— Mark Frauenfelder, editor-in-chief of Make Magazine and founder of BoingBoing.net

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