Future Tech aims to present you with a realistic view of the future, based on concepts and prototypes for future vehicles, which are currently in serious development. It is a fascinating compilation of material which explores and defines, in more ways than one, how we move forward. It does that by setting developments out in five main modes of transport: air travel & aerospace, personal mobility, public transport, road transport and water transport. These subjects make up the main chapters. Each chapter is built up of a main introduction text and a number of outlined descriptions of various concepts and prototypes. Each chapter introduction text addresses various problems and challenges facing the particular area of transport as well as describing a range of solutions developed by engineers and designers. A large number of the concepts and prototypes mentioned in the text are described and explained in more detail in separate outlined parts. Each chapter introduction text also looks at current developments from a historical context, as well as giving some general historical information. For example when the first cars, motorcycles and airplanes were invented, how they were powered and what alternatives engineers of those days proposed. The way we transport ourselves today has a long historical background. Some of the current developments are sometimes actually more than a century old, but never found commercial success for various reasons or simply disappeared in favor of other vehicles which seemed more promising at the time.

"A superbly researched new book" [The Times, UK]

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