Jerome Agel (1930–2007)

A perfectly charming, cute, naive, cranky collage of jokes, clever insights, utopian plans, and futuristic predictions about technology and society. It's wacky enough that it doesn't need to take its message too seriously, but interesting enough to get you flipping pages. Unique.

did not expect Carl to almost fuck a dolphin. based.

reading Carl's thoughts of the future is incredibly inspiring as well as a bit saddening..

he hoped for so much more than what we have but I'm sure that he'd be proud of the achievements we have made as well as played his part in arguing for more to be done.

This may have been cool in its day, but it comes across today as noisey, over-designed and confusing.
This book is snippets of quotes and images laid out in a "clever" design that you have to read front to back and back to front.
I think the design is a reflection of the times, the confused sixties and seventies when technology and social change were changing faster than society could keep up. Today, I think the layout just adds noise to the message.
Also, there is not much of R. Buckminster show more Fuller even though he is listed as the primary author.
Perhaps in context I would understand more of the humor and irony of this book, but today it is more of a curious artifact of the time when it was published. show less

A bit dated by now, but with its combination of Sagan's always engaging writing and copious illustrations this was an entertaining and highly educational read.