Science fiction [SF] writers have often been able to predict future[s], or so it seems. Is this the case or are we just copying from SF.
For example; the cell phone [mobile phone] first seen in the 1960s TV series "Star Trek" [beam me up Scottie].
Did we just copy that idea or was it a prediction?
NASA confessed they designed their set up on the Star Ship Enterprise. Copyists then!
2007-07-04 07:17:58 · 12 answers · asked by Dragoner 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
good question, bit of both i guess. we're still yet to come up with a disc shaped flying device...or if they have no-ones told me about it.
2007-07-04 07:22:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The clue here is the word Fiction in Science Fiction. Because an idea has come to pass into existence does not presuppose that it was predicted. It means that someone smarter invented a thing based on the same idea. Car phones were about in the 60's and 70's, just hugely expensive and not for everyday tinks like us. It wasn't that radical an idea that there would be a mobile phone. NASA based designs on Star Trek? What kind of people do you think might work there? That their designs might be based on things they are influenced by is no surprise really. Copyists? Science Fiction has regularly plundered themes from Classical Literature, hardly any better. Remember Ulysses 31? Class sci-fi cartoon but lifted from ancient times.
2007-07-04 07:34:56 · answer #2 · answered by tara_365 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was a book written in 1906(i think) about a big unsinkable ship that hit an iceberg and sunk. In the story the ship had exactly the same number of passenger, life boats, dead, and survivors as the Titanic which then sunk in 1912. I think that some people can write a story, unknowinly predicting the future.
2007-07-04 12:31:20 · answer #3 · answered by willow 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Science Fiction does not predict the future.
Reread Starman Jones by Robert Heinlein. Interstellar travel without real computers!? Bogus!
2007-07-04 09:21:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We do copy most of it. As tidbits and what's coming. You might want to see sci-fi movies and the various series on serveral themes.
Some stories ARE fantasy, though most being practical and sensible and are written with an obvious intent - not to scare the humans to what might be out there.
2007-07-04 08:55:31 · answer #5 · answered by upyerjumper 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. It is called science fiction because at the time it was written (or is written) the devices did not (do not) exist. But the idea can be planted in a future scientists mind.
2007-07-04 07:22:19 · answer #6 · answered by Cirric 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You're right, a cell phone looks a LOT like a comunicator.
Coppy. SF extends the imagination of what technologey can be. Simple(or complex) as that.
Hey, do you know what episode this line is from? "Sorry, neither" I do, and you'll get extra credit if you know who said it and when.
HINT: 'Fair Maden' 'foils' fenceing'
2007-07-04 08:59:18 · answer #7 · answered by Crazygirl ♥ aka GT 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Isaac Asimov invented the word "robotics" in his science fiction novels - now it's part of the language.
2007-07-04 07:30:42 · answer #8 · answered by Joe 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I was young, many years ago, my Mother and Dad used to shake their heads because I use to read books about space travel, moon journeys,flying saucers and death rays (lasers). most of these things probably were just predictions,but most of them are now true.
2007-07-04 07:30:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
WRONG! dick barton special agent had a communicator on his wrist back in the 1940's...
life doesnt imitate art... function follows form...
2007-07-04 09:20:03 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋