[Post-Neolithic]

I read somewhere that “Science Fiction is the history of the future”. Truer words were never said.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

I read somewhere that “Science Fiction is the history of the future”. Truer words were never said.

As a big fan of science fiction from my childhood to the present, I'd have to disagree with this. For every example like Clark's idea about geostationary satellites, there have been a thousand or more wildly mistaken, hopelessly outdated ideas. And there are numerous technologies today that were never imagined 50 years ago by any of John W. Campbell's writers.

I doubt that any writers today come close to portraying the world of 2057, either. I'd like to hope that authors like Vernor Vinge and Peter F. Hamilton are somewhere in the ballpark, though.