The Future and Why We Should Avoid It: Killer Robots, the Apocalypse and Other Topics of Mild Concern (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781771620338)

The future holds many unknowns: advances in medical technology, increased airport security and critical new inventions like sentient, polygraph-enabled, wireless toasters. Luckily, Maclean's columnist Scott Feschuk has written a survival guide -- part how-to manual, part product guide, part apocalypse analysis and part sardonic observation -- to help us navigate these troubled times. Or at least make us laugh while we try. The Future and Why We Should Avoid It envisions the daunting, depressing era we have to look forward to with the best of Feschuk's musings on aging, death, technology, inventions, health and leisure. Combining quizzes, voiceovers and speeches, and employing snark, innuendo, toilet humor and shameless mockery -- because how else do you cope with the fact that one day you will die? -- Feschuk contemplates the fate of humanity and the planet in the upcoming years, poking fun, provoking thought and dredging up silver linings in even the darkest forecasts.

Author: Scott Feschuk
ISBN-10: 1771620331
ISBN-13: 9781771620338
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Language: English
Published: 05/12/2015
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Quill & Quire 12/01/2014 pg. 38
Publishers Weekly 04/13/2015