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Originally Posted by iansales  Seems a bit of a pointless argument. Science fiction is not futurism. You might as well ask why techno-thrillers never predicted 911. |
This was predicted. They never predicted the car crash that iced (one time princess) Diana though.
Science often tries to capture the human imagination with things we had hoped for in the past. Scientists try to develop many things that can take many years to come into fruition. Takes an author five minutes to create those things in their works, especially when they give no indication on how they might work. When they do try to detail how they work, they just bore us senseless. I am a great believer in different kinds of people - ie a literary mind and a scientific mind - seems a rare thing that the two combine.