Amazing Inventions
Nerds and movie buffs unite! Cool gadgets, unbelievable space vehicles, and powerful sci-fi weapons often leave fans saying, "If only it were real." Fortunately, many movie fans are also tinkerers and they leave the theater with inspiration for the drawing board. Check out these amazing movie fantasies that became reality:
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Pop Culture Science fiction has long been regarded for its ability to predict the rise of certain technology. A lot of the machines and devices we use today were discussed and pondered in sci-fi decades before they became popular. But not everything predicted in sci-fi becomes reality.
The nursery from Ray Bradbury's "The Veldt" We get it. The point of science fiction is usually not to promote the use of shiny new tools, but to heed warning against their use. But we have to wonder: What if said shiny new tools are really, really cool?
It's hard to believe that voice control, the internet and organ transplants were all inspired by science fiction We often assume the technology we rely on came from the minds of genius inventors determined to solve a problem. And most original concepts will have been inspired by the need to improve the way something was done.
Emily Moorhead Inventors can draw inspiration from everything. Dreams, nature, and divine intervention are just some of the ways inventors say they have been inspired. But did you know some innovators have sought their muse from science fiction?
Technology MIT researchers Dan Novy and Sophia Brueckner argue that the mind-bending worlds of authors such as Philip K. Dick and Arthur C. Clarke can help us not just come up with ideas for new gadgets, but anticipate their consequences.
Glossary of 2,400+ science fiction inventions, devices and technology from 750 novels and stories by more than 300 authors from Adams to Zelazny.
With new developments in space exploration and technology the idea of space exploration became a reality. Though many writers explored space travel before these events and inventions, the reality of new technologies and the evidence that space exploration was now possible opened new doors to create more fantastical ideas of space travel.
Pop Culture Science fiction has long been regarded for its ability to predict the rise of certain technology. A lot of the machines and devices we use today were discussed and pondered in sci-fi decades before they became popular. But not everything predicted in sci-fi becomes reality.