See, this is why I love SciFi. “Amazing! I wonder how this will go…”, questions the average person. “Here’s 50 books and movies that will show you how this will go…”
Aspects of tech are often correctly predicted in SciFi going all the way back to Lucian writing about a ship of men flying up to the moon in the 2nd century.
But surrounding what they often get right the authors always get things wrong too. For example, contrary to Lucian’s ideas, in reality the ship of men that flew up to the moon didn’t find a race of human like aliens that were only men who could carry children and had a bunch of gay sex with the men of Apollo-11.
TL;DR: Correctly predicting a technology in a story doesn’t mean correctly predicting the social impact and context for that technology.
See, this is why I love SciFi. “Amazing! I wonder how this will go…”, questions the average person. “Here’s 50 books and movies that will show you how this will go…”
Except it doesn’t.
Don’t overlook the ‘Fi’ in ‘SciFi.’
Aspects of tech are often correctly predicted in SciFi going all the way back to Lucian writing about a ship of men flying up to the moon in the 2nd century.
But surrounding what they often get right the authors always get things wrong too. For example, contrary to Lucian’s ideas, in reality the ship of men that flew up to the moon didn’t find a race of human like aliens that were only men who could carry children and had a bunch of gay sex with the men of Apollo-11.
TL;DR: Correctly predicting a technology in a story doesn’t mean correctly predicting the social impact and context for that technology.
Why do you think we never went back?