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You need to read better fiction. Look around you, speculative science fiction is what inspired the world you live in; it created this reality. You have global
by gnaritas 13y ago
You need to read better fiction. Look around you, speculative science fiction is what inspired the world you live in; it created this reality. You have global communications via satellite because Author C Clark wrote a piece of fiction that sprung the idea upon the world. Fiction generates ideas, to think that somehow doesn't matter because it hasn't happened yet is massively missing the point.
- andyjohnson0 13y agoNot disputing your general point, by Clark's original description of geostationary comsats was in a letter to Wireless World magazine, followed by a paper in the same publication [1]. It wasn't popularised via fiction, although later he did write some fiction that used the idea. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#The_Geostationary_communications_satellite http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#The_Geostation...
- gnaritas 13y agoAh, correction noted, thanks.