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Yeah I really like going back through 20th century science fiction and seeing echoes of contemporary topics or history in the varying and wild guesses we got ba
by mherdeg 6y ago
Yeah I really like going back through 20th century science fiction and seeing echoes of contemporary topics or history in the varying and wild guesses we got back in the day.
IIRC Heinlein's 1940 "The Roads Must Roll" for example invents the Segway (a self-balancing single-wheeled vehicle used by engineers maintaining ultra-high-speed moving walkways that everyone commutes on).
I just read Asimov's "Breeds There a Man...?" (1951) and couldn't shake the feeling that it was echoing Thomas Kuhn's 1962 theory of scientific development.