The ESA is trawling the history of sci-fi to find out when and where the big ideas in science came from. (PDF Sci-Fi review.) And basically all contemporary space science was dreamed of by authors long before it ever was made possible by scientists and engineers. Then there’s all the crazy stuff… like warp drives and nanotech. Still this is one of the best articles/research I’ve ever seen on the predictive power of sci-fi.
Science steals from Fiction
Monday, December 9, 2002
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