{"product_id":"that-buck-rogers-stuff-jerry-pournelle-9789527303252","title":"That Buck Rogers Stuff","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere in \u003cem\u003eThat Buck Rogers Stuff\u003c\/em\u003e Jerry Pournelle lays out his fascination with technological solutions for the world's 1978 problems and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten on an IBM Selectric typewriter during an Analog time, these predictions will later be fully explored in classics like \u003cem\u003eStarswarm\u003c\/em\u003e which introduced Artificial Intelligence or \u003cem\u003eThe Mote in Gods Eye\u003c\/em\u003e exploring the societal effects of a 1000 year library as a precursor for cloud computing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jerry Pournelle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9527303257\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789527303252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Chaos Manor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/12\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.51lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.41d","brand":"Jerry Pournelle","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43982548762879,"sku":"9789527303252","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6ea6dab6-184c-4f66-ba69-447c13a33a23.jpg?v=1683261788","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/that-buck-rogers-stuff-jerry-pournelle-9789527303252","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}