Of course fiction affect our reality. Fiction can influence our lives and inspire us, for good or evil. Art changes lives. Anyone who disagrees isn’t paying attention. Here’s a bunch of examples:
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Listening to some scientists, Kim Stanley Robinson turns out to have written a near-blueprint for colonising Mars. He just thought he was writing some novels.
I’m sorry to be pedantic, but I really can’t let it pass. The story ideas attributed to H.G. Wells in this article are better suited to be Jules Verne’s.
What’s the missing word on the H G Wells section?
I looked up the original post and apparently it’s “eccetera”. I know it’s spelled wrong, but I’m not sure why they felt the need to blur out a typo. It was bothering me too lol
Wrote a paper on this type of corrolatin for a comp class in college. Put it on blogger and forgot about it. Lol ‘Comments from the Peanut Gallery’ if anybody is wondering.
It wasn’t wrist communicators, it was a flip open communicator. The wrist communicator was in Dick Tracy comics.
Well, the previous comment I tried to post isn’t showing. The “Wrist Communicators” that are mentioned are not from Star Trek. They are from Dick Tracy Comics. They had a “two way wrist radio” and the Star Trek series of the 60’s had a flip open communicator, basically a radio.