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Why? SciFi is great fodder for the imagination. Sure his technical details are unrelated, but for SciFi to trigger the thinking that lead to them is awesome!
by zethraeus 13y ago
Why? SciFi is great fodder for the imagination. Sure his technical details are unrelated, but for SciFi to trigger the thinking that lead to them is awesome!
- angersock 13y agoHell, look what influence cyberpunk had on early internet work and culture. I'm curious what sorts of things the current twenty-somethings consumed while working on twitterscapes.
- VLM 13y agoI would provide the counterexample of tech coexisting with scifi, that crude hang gliders were well within the technological reach of the ancients... however centuries of daydreaming about mechanical flapping bird wings kept them solidly on the ground. Its entirely possible "something" going FTL will eventually happen. For some peculiar value of "something" and some peculiar value of FTL. However, it will probably resemble stereotypical deus ex machina sci fi reimaginings of classic WWII battleship and aircraft carrier movies about as closely as a modern helicopter resembles a really big hummingbird. Unfortunately, much like flight, preconceived notions will probably hold back R+D in FTL until long past its possible start. Possibly if we'd just focus on "something else" then in 2013 we'd already be 50 years into practical FTL deployment.
- moocowduckquack 13y agoAll FTL is is the wish to travel to other worlds that we think exist in the sky. This inspiration pre-dates not just science fiction, but also science and probably writing.