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Originally posted by Bhelliom@Jun 21 2005, 12:50 PM
cool article... and i didn't notice the comparison before .. .but interesting.
Seems to me alot of technology these days originated in sci-fi. specifically star trek.
on the original. there were personal computers, 3.5 floppy disks, transporter technology (which right now can only transmit photons or something similarly tiny) cell phones (the communicators), things like credits (todays credit and debit cards), and medical instruments like the pressure injection thing in star trek that is now available. etc etc.
or going back even further to jules vern with 20 000 leagues. a submarine
I believe that without sci-fi not as much of these things would be conceived. or at least not for a longer time. people saw these things on tv or in books and attempted to create them in modern times.
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Exactly.
I remember in a Philosophy class discussing whether a being like Data from TNG could ever become a reality, and if so, would it deserve the status he received in TNG.
http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/seri...sode/68376.html What astounded me the most about the discussion was the incredible number of people who outright dismissed the possibility that a being like Data could be created. People just dismissed it out of hand which I found rather amazing and sad at the same time.