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   XPost: sci.physics   
   From: David@block.net   
      
   On 1/14/2014 7:54 PM, Rod Speed wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   You have a rather loose definition of "recent".   
      
   >>>> 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.   
      
   I don't find that clear at all.  The message I got was "The Bolsheviks   
   are just as bad as the capitalists of the west".   
      
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