Does science fiction predict the future or does it inspire science to create that future.
Like the original flip phone, based on the communicators from the original star trek
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Does science fiction predict the future or does it inspire science to create that future.
Like the original flip phone, based on the communicators from the original star trek
I'd go with inspiration. SF has a pretty spotty record with prediction.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/predictions-from-the-father-of-science-fiction-61256664/
Coincidentally, this book review on NPR talks about exactly that.
https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2018/01/06/576249787/star-treknology-imagining-the-future-into-being