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> very little science fiction has actually become real I can't comprehend this perspective, so you'll have to help me out. Look at the fiction from the 20's an
by nomel 4y ago
> very little science fiction has actually become real
I can't comprehend this perspective, so you'll have to help me out. Look at the fiction from the 20's and 30's. People went to the moon. Robots walked on two legs. People had computers on their wrists. Machines made body parts for people.
Do you have some examples of "very generous interpretations"?
- tablespoon 4y ago>> very little science fiction has actually become real > People went to the moon. That's actually a fairly interesting example. People went to the moon, so (narrowly) you could count that as "sci-fi becoming real." However, more broadly, science fiction is about more than about technology, and the world with that technology hasn't turned out anything like the sci-fi zeitgeist depicted. Sci-fi can throw a lot of ideas about technology at the wall, and some will stick, especially vague/easy ones like "smaller computers," but it tends to get everything else wrong. When people "believe in sci-fi," I think they believe in that "everything else."