Real Science Fiction Technology Fantasies
#13 Credit Cards
Edward Bellamy said once upon a time in 1888: “Having stuff more compact than our wallets with which we can transport money would be really awesome”. In 2012 we have the credit card, a device without which handling money will be a significant failure.
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Lunar Exploration
In 1634 Johannes Kepler had the bold idea that going to the moon was possible. Apparently he was a clever man of clever thoughts and very, very accurate predictions. In 1969, on the 20th of July Neil Armstrong proved it.
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Scuba Diving
Emilie Gagnat and Jacques-Yves Cousteau had the great idea of placing compressed air in a tank, attaching it to a suit. Nowadays, their discovery has grown into an extreme sport, a scientific investigation tool and most importantly a crazy fan mania.
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Credit Cards
Edward Bellamy said once upon a time in 1888: “Having stuff more compact than our wallets with which we can transport money would be really awesome”. In 2012 we have the credit card, a device without which handling money will be a significant failure.
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Robots
Karel Capek first thought of the robot. Science fiction writers and movie directors certainly made humanity fall in love with it until the time came when human kind was cool enough to come up with the technology of creating one.
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DVDs/CDs
Since 1934 people were obsessed with data carriers. Nowadays we are so far ahead in time that discs themselves are soon to extinct from our lifestyle but we still of course have to give credits to the creators of this first modern computer instrument.
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The video iPod/i Pad
More than a hundred years ago, I-Pads were as real and accomplishable as was finding dragons in the forest. Well, dragons don’t exist nowadays, but I-Pads, oh, boy, most kids nowadays can’t even imagine their lives without one.
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CCTV
All the action thriller film-makers need to thank George Orwell, who first thought of CCTV cameras. Many of those in films were the means by which the good guys capture the bad guys or vice verse. In real life, they are essential for security, especially today.
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Geosynchronous Satellites
The Russian Space Station, all the million TV channels we have the ability and unnecessary luxury to watch owe Arthur C Crarke. He is the guy who brought forward the concept of geosynchronous satellites-or satellites that can stay on one place forever in space. Good job.
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Genetic Engineering
Aldous Huxley came up with genetic engineering-something that nowadays causes great troubles and a hundred times greater possibilities for scientific advantages and discoveries. We have to give it to him-changing a natural DNA means tough work after all.
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The Internet
Mark Twain, yes Tom Soyer’s writer came up with the idea of Internet. It is not very surprising-both Tom Soyer and the Internet teach children bad things nowadays but both have enormous potential and chance for development when looked at from the bright side.
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Hologram TV
A Japanese (well of course it’s Japanese) broadcaster has a plan to make holographic television a household attribute by the year of 2017. Let us all hope he will succeed.
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Cloaking Devices
A UK scientist has managed to make a paperclip invisible. It’s only natural, honestly speaking. J. K. Rowling came up with the Invisibility Cloak, of course that it is going to be a countryman of hers who will come up with this.
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Hover cars
Star Wars fans will go religious when they learn that an Israeli company-Urban Aeronautics is close to announcing a completed and verified project of an aerial vehicle that will perform battlefront evacuations. It will be airborne and yes you will feel like a Jedi.
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Exoskeletons
The US Army-as you know from movies and reality-the greatest in the whole world, is already testing exoskeletons-the machines capable of boasting human movement and strength. Yes, the military soon will all be consistent of Wolverine privets and lieutenants.
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Force Fields
Use the force, earthlings. And the best scientific achievement certainly goes to the Queen. Force fields were being successfully created that block objects from moving through certain grounds where the force field itself is active. Alien stuff, right? Except now it is already Earth stuff. Voala.
