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1. • • Science fiction often inspires the future rather than predicting it.
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     Science fiction doesn’t predict the future. It inspires it.

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   Does science fiction predict the future?

   • Sci-fi has a reputation for predicting and inspiring. Image: REUTERS/Albert Gea Does science fiction predict the future or does it merely inspire future discoveries?

   Here are 15 sci-fi books that actually predicted the future

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   What if science fiction is mistaken for predictions only?

   • If they are mistaken for predictions only, the metaphorical power of science fiction gets lost. That would be a mistake because science fiction is always more about the present than it is about the future. It is at one and the same time an attempt to portray a possible future and an attempt to describe how our present feels.

   What a Science Fiction Writer Knows about Predicting the Future

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   Does science fiction suggest futures for news?

   • And in “ Does science fiction — yes, science fiction — suggest futures for news?”, Loren Ghiglione quotes author Orson Scott Card on the necessity of science fiction’s “thought experiments”: “We have to think of them so that if the worst does come, we’ll already know how to live in that universe.”

   Can Science Fiction Predict the Future of Technology?

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   Why is science fiction so useful?

   • Pick up any science-fiction book that pre-dates our current technological moment and you’re likely to encounter similar failures of imagination. That’s what makes science fiction so useful to those of us trying to anticipate the future of our digital world.

   Can Science Fiction Predict the Future of Technology?

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   Is science fiction a real thing?

   • Science fiction introduces us to elaborate, futuristic worlds that often sound like nothing more than a dream. But humanity has made incredible technological advancements over the past 100 years, and many of the ideas predicted in science fiction have now become reality.

   Here Are 15 Wild Sci-Fi Predictions About Future Technology That

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   Does science fiction shift into futurology?

   • When science fiction does shift into futurology, which happens from time to time, you get Scientology, frozen head companies, and so on, ranging from the ridiculous to the horrible. But for the most part, science fiction remains modest and playful in its so-called predictions because it knows they probably won't come true.

   What a Science Fiction Writer Knows about Predicting the Future

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   Feb 19, 2019 · Science fiction isn’t limited to predicting tech developments: It’s more broadly concerned with imagining possible futures, or alternative presents.

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   Everyone from governments to military to industry leaders do as well, and they all employ people - called ‘futurists’ - who attempt to forecast the future. Roey Tzezana explains some of the ways that futurists venture to do so.

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   Sep 1, 2016 · Quite prominent public figures are warning us to beware of this possible future, including Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking. But business leaders and physicists are no better at prediction than...

8. www.weforum.org › agenda › 2018Here are 15 sci-fi books that actually predicted the future

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   Dec 5, 2018 · Does science fiction predict the future or does it merely inspire future discoveries? That's the question these 15 books force readers to ask themselves as they read about computer hackers, bionic limbs, and iPads, all thought up by authors decades and sometimes centuries before the inventions were created.

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   Jan 11, 2019 · Science fiction introduces us to elaborate, futuristic worlds that often sound like nothing more than a dream. But humanity has made incredible technological advancements over the past 100 years, and many of the ideas predicted in science fiction have now become reality.

10. www.bbc.co.uk › teach › live-lessons10 ways science fiction predicted the future - BBC Teach

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    We’ve put together a list of 10 ways science fiction novels have predicted or, arguably, shaped the future we live in.