Smashing. So sci-fi is gradually becoming reality...
Sweet! Soon transporters and phasers, soon.
No word on phasers, but mass accelerator cannons are already being developed...
' Wrote:Smashing. So sci-fi is gradually becoming reality...
It has always been like that.
Many many things we have today were in fact 'predicted' by science fiction writers some years back.
' Wrote:Many many things we have today were in fact 'predicted' by science fiction writers some years back.
"The modern waterbed was created by Charles Hall in 1968, while he was a design student at San Francisco State University in California. Fellow SFSU students Paul Heckel and Evan Fawkes also contributed to the concept. Hall originally wanted to make an innovative chair. His first prototype was a vinyl bag with 300 pounds (136 kg) of cornstarch, but the result was uncomfortable. He next attempted to fill it with Jell-O, but this too was a failure. Ultimately, he abandoned working on a chair, and settled on perfecting a bed. He succeeded. His timing could not have been more perfect: the Sexual Revolution was under way, and Hall's waterbed became enormously popular, making it one of the most notable icons of the 1970s. However, because a waterbed is described in the novels Beyond This Horizon (1942), Double Star (1956), and Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) by Robert A. Heinlein, Hall was unable to obtain a patent on his creation." (Note that this is from Wikipedia, but is not what Wikipedia says NOW ... someone trying to revise history?
Three doctors designed a bed for burn patients where they could be gotten into and out of it with minimum handling. They designed it so it pivoted upright and then once the patient was standing against it, it could be lain back. They got to the patent office and the clerk said "Isn't that the bed from the U.S.S Enterprise sick bay?"
Enki Bilal's "nikopol" predicted chess boxing as well)