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   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   David Johnston  wrote   
   > Rod Speed wrote   
   >> Bernard Peek  wrote   
   >>> David Dalton wrote   
      
   >>>> What are some cases where science fiction has successfully   
   >>>> predicted scientific or technological advances?   
      
   >>> In general SF doesn't try to predict the future,   
      
   >> That is very arguable, particularly with the early SF.   
      
   >>> it's far more likely to warn us of something   
   >>> that might happen if we don't work to avoid it.   
      
   >> That is more of a recent phenomenon.   
      
   > Make Room!  Make Room!   
   > The Marching Morons   
   > 1984   
   > It Can't Happen Here   
   > The Unparalleled Invasion   
      
   Like I said, rather more recent than Jules Verne   
   or even Forster with all but the last.   
      
   >>> George Orwell predicted the surveillance society.   
      
   >> But got it utterly wrong with lots of the detail.   
   >> We didn't even see much of Animal Farm in the west.   
      
   > Since Animal Farm was a depiction of the history   
   > of the Soviet Union, why would you expect to?   
      
   It clearly was warning that that might happen in the west too.   
      
   It never did and won't either.   
      
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