Did Science Fiction Shape Todays Technology

Posted by User Contributed

August 27, 2008

My favorite hobby is reading and I love to settle down to the classics and contemporary fiction too. I like science fiction books very much, for their imagination and thoughtful stories. Science fiction in the modern age, started out in comic strips with heroes such as Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers. They became popular in the 1950s, often referred to as The Golden Age.

People had become fascinated by technology and space travel. Against the background of the Cold War, it was good to have someone who could swoop in and save the day. Wireless, and then TV further popularized the genre and many books and magazines were written on the subject.

The strange thing about science fiction though is the way that so many of the fictional technologies of yesteryear have somehow transformed them selves into the reality of the modern technological gadgets gizmos and communications devices that are now part of out every day lives.

Where the classic science fiction writers visionaries of the future or did the technological seeds they planted in the young minds of modern designers and today’s scientists grow into the technology we see all around us.

Nobody really knows but personally I can’t wait for the advent of flying cars and instant transportation, who knows anti-grav propulsion could even save the planet from harmful green house gas emissions.

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