TheCuriousOne: How does science fiction impact technology?
I need more detailed answers. Who are the best science fiction authors?
Any great science fiction novels?
How has the past science fiction novels impacted the modern science fiction.
How has the past and the present impacted techonology all in all?
Are there any controversies regarding this topic?
How can you disagree with this topic? How can you defend it?
Any solutions to any issues?
What is its effects on society?
Counterarguments?
Actions currently being taken to address the issue?
Specific examples of situations invloving this topic?
Actions that have been taken to address the issues?
Answers and Views:
Answer by Gary B
Today’s Cell Phones are direct rsult of Star trek’;s Captaqin Kirk Communcatiro. A guy at Motorola wanted one just like it, and so he invented it.
The US Army tried to develope a “sensor” medical stretcher that would read out the boby’s vitals, just like the medical beds on Star Trek.
Arthur C. Clarke (Author of “2001” and “Childhood’s End”, the original version of “V”) described the Geosynchronous Communcations Satellite in the late 1950’s.
Answer by David DRead this book…
“Great Mambo Chicken And The Transhuman Condition: Science Slightly Over The Edge”
By Ed Regis
By the way… don’t confuse the appearance of a technology that was talked about in a previous science fiction novel with the novel actually “impacting technology…”
The atomic submarine didn’t come about because people read the book, “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” and said, “we have to make one of those…”
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