2007-02-22 09:12:42 · 5 answers · asked by mystery 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Science Fiction itself was born of the ambivalence (love/hate relationship) of the Industrial Revolution - where scientific studies took off because people had more time to think and experiment (and study the Greeks). Since science offers answers to all of our questions (except those reserved for religion), like Socrates and the Greeks, we propose theories of "what if..." then test them for feasability. When we have a scientific principle, like "big hunks of metal are too heavy to fly", we write stories that theorize the possibility. This leads to testing it and eventually leads to airplanes...or genetic testing or nanotechnology. The first sci-fi story (although the term was not coined until 1926) was "Frankenstein" in 1818. This is when frogs were hooked to electrodes for the first time and people thought electricity had life-giving properties, the alchemists were still trying to turn lead into gold, and the Plague was killing so many people that they HOPED there would be some miracle in medicine (science) to help cure it. Look to Star Trek especially - the communicators were the impetus for the cell phone (the creator even says so), and people have been trying to "beam" things since then.
2007-02-22 10:21:15 · answer #1 · answered by blakesleefam 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People take ideas that others come up with and build stories around these ideas to entertain(and of course to get monetary relief too). Some of these ideas were from Leonardo da Vinci, like his flying machines or his submarines. Jules Verne took his submarine idea one step further in his original manuscript 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. From there we had a submarine built in the U.S. called after the one in Verne's book: The Nautilus. People have been trying different ideas for entertaining books for years and science has finally caught up to those ideas for the most part. Science is good but the processes take a long time to perfect, in a book or story the process has already been perfected and used to further entertain.
2007-02-22 11:48:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't. Most of what you read in science-fiction books has little bearing on the science behind our life.
2007-02-22 13:40:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
people can take ideas from science and technology that they find cool or fascinating and put it into their own story...it is fun to make up new technology too....Science creates the ideas for science fiction and I suppose it can work backwards too.
2007-02-22 10:02:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a lot. Firm basis in reality helps.
2007-02-22 09:15:33 · answer #5 · answered by flowerpet56 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋