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To: SunkenCiv

Well, Dr. Bova has a short list on his site:

http://www.benbova.com/predict.htm

There are many others. Right off the top of my head, Isaac Asimov predicted quite a bit of the technology of robotics, some of which is just now being actually achieved.


9 posted on 03/27/2007 11:32:44 AM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (Never let it be said that there are things we would never let be said.)
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To: Hegemony Cricket

Interesting list. I don't buy any of it though. Sci-fi writers are science fans and cheerleaders, and read a lot of nonfiction. Also, I've never seen anything in any sci-fi story (when I was reading such things years ago in my misguided youth) which literally come true after the story was written. There were rockets before sci-fi writers started writing about them, in China, during the Middle Ages, before Tsiolkovski or Jules Verne.

Arthur C. Clarke always took credit for (and generally is given credit for) invention of geostationary satellites for communication, but I doubt that he so much as soldered a wire on anything ever launched. Edmund Spenser, writing "The Faerie Queen" in the 16th century, "invented" Talus, a robot warrior sidekick for one of the characters, and for that matter, Baum "invented" The Tin Man. :')


13 posted on 03/27/2007 9:43:00 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Saturday, March 24, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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