Dreams come true
HOW INVENTORS HAVE TURNED SCIENCE FICTION INTO PREDICTION
IN ISAAC ASIMOV'S SHORT STORY, "REASON" (1941) THE CALENDAR HAS CROSSED 2058.AGAINST SPACE
SHIP ROOMS THE INTERSTELLAR DEEPS, COLLECTING ENERGY FROM DISTANT SUNS AND BEAMING
THEM TO VARIOUS PLANETS,INCLUDING EARTH. THIS MAY NO LONGER BE FICTION. CHINA BATTLING DENSE
FOG A POLLUTION CRISIS, PLANS TO PUT A COMMERCIALLY VIABLE SOLAR PLANT IN SPACE EVEN SOONER,
BY 2050. THE SOLAR PANELS OF THIS LEVIATHAN WILL SPAN FIVE TO SIX KILOMETERS, LARGER THAN THE
SIZE OF TIANANMEN SQUARE.THE SCIENTIST WHO HAS BEEN BREWING THIS PLAN FOR THE LAST 50 YEARS
SAYS IT WAS INSPIRED BY ASIMOV'S SHORT STORY.
THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME SCIENTISTS HAVE TRIED TO TURN THE STRANGE SHAPES AND FREQUENCIES
OF SCIENCE FICTION INTO THE STUFF OF LIFE.JULES VERNE'S GLITTERING UNDERGROUND VESSEL, THE
NAUTILUS, WOULD GIVE RISE TO THE FIRST SUBMARINE THAT COULD RANGE THE OPEN SEAS. THE FLAYING
MACHINES OF VERNE'S STORIES WOULD LATER BECOME THE HELICOPTER.H.G.WELLS,AUTHOR OF DYSTOPIC,
FIN DE SIECLE FANTASIES,MUST ANSWER FOR THE ROCKET,ATOMIC POWER AND TIME TRAVEL FAD.STAR WARS
WAS BEHIND CELL PHONES AND "WALDOS"OR MANIPULATOR ARMS WERE NAMED AFTER WALDO F.JONES, THE
FICTIONAL INVENTOR OF A ROBERT HEINLEIN SHORT STORY PUBLISHED IN 1942.LIKE OVIDIAN CREATURES,
HUMAN CIVILISATION SEEMS TO HAVE THE POWER TO TRANSFORM IT SELF BY DREAMING.
BUT "REASON" IS ALSO PART OF A SERIES OF SHORT STORIES BASED ON THE "THREE LAWS OF ROBOTIC"
FORMULATED BY ASIMOV. FANS HAD LIKED THE IDEA OF SCIENCE "MADE SAFE" BY "LAW". YET ASIMOV'S STORIES
WARN OF ROBOTS REBELLING AGAINST THEIR HUMAN MASTERS, THE LIMITS TO RATIONAL THOUGHT AND THE
APPROACH OF A CHILLING NEW WORLD ORDER. SO SCIENTIST MIGHT WANT TO READ THEIR ASIMOV WITH CARE.
SOME OF THE GREAT VANITIES OF THE 20TH CENTURY HAVE ALSO BEEN POWERED BY SCIENCE FICTION.
HOW INVENTORS HAVE TURNED SCIENCE FICTION INTO PREDICTION
IN ISAAC ASIMOV'S SHORT STORY, "REASON" (1941) THE CALENDAR HAS CROSSED 2058.AGAINST SPACE
SHIP ROOMS THE INTERSTELLAR DEEPS, COLLECTING ENERGY FROM DISTANT SUNS AND BEAMING
THEM TO VARIOUS PLANETS,INCLUDING EARTH. THIS MAY NO LONGER BE FICTION. CHINA BATTLING DENSE
FOG A POLLUTION CRISIS, PLANS TO PUT A COMMERCIALLY VIABLE SOLAR PLANT IN SPACE EVEN SOONER,
BY 2050. THE SOLAR PANELS OF THIS LEVIATHAN WILL SPAN FIVE TO SIX KILOMETERS, LARGER THAN THE
SIZE OF TIANANMEN SQUARE.THE SCIENTIST WHO HAS BEEN BREWING THIS PLAN FOR THE LAST 50 YEARS
SAYS IT WAS INSPIRED BY ASIMOV'S SHORT STORY.
THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME SCIENTISTS HAVE TRIED TO TURN THE STRANGE SHAPES AND FREQUENCIES
OF SCIENCE FICTION INTO THE STUFF OF LIFE.JULES VERNE'S GLITTERING UNDERGROUND VESSEL, THE
NAUTILUS, WOULD GIVE RISE TO THE FIRST SUBMARINE THAT COULD RANGE THE OPEN SEAS. THE FLAYING
MACHINES OF VERNE'S STORIES WOULD LATER BECOME THE HELICOPTER.H.G.WELLS,AUTHOR OF DYSTOPIC,
FIN DE SIECLE FANTASIES,MUST ANSWER FOR THE ROCKET,ATOMIC POWER AND TIME TRAVEL FAD.STAR WARS
WAS BEHIND CELL PHONES AND "WALDOS"OR MANIPULATOR ARMS WERE NAMED AFTER WALDO F.JONES, THE
FICTIONAL INVENTOR OF A ROBERT HEINLEIN SHORT STORY PUBLISHED IN 1942.LIKE OVIDIAN CREATURES,
HUMAN CIVILISATION SEEMS TO HAVE THE POWER TO TRANSFORM IT SELF BY DREAMING.
BUT "REASON" IS ALSO PART OF A SERIES OF SHORT STORIES BASED ON THE "THREE LAWS OF ROBOTIC"
FORMULATED BY ASIMOV. FANS HAD LIKED THE IDEA OF SCIENCE "MADE SAFE" BY "LAW". YET ASIMOV'S STORIES
WARN OF ROBOTS REBELLING AGAINST THEIR HUMAN MASTERS, THE LIMITS TO RATIONAL THOUGHT AND THE
APPROACH OF A CHILLING NEW WORLD ORDER. SO SCIENTIST MIGHT WANT TO READ THEIR ASIMOV WITH CARE.
SOME OF THE GREAT VANITIES OF THE 20TH CENTURY HAVE ALSO BEEN POWERED BY SCIENCE FICTION.
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