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   From: rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com   
      
   David Johnston  wrote   
   > 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".   
      
   I didn't bother with any definition at all when   
   making an off hand comment like that.   
      
   >>>>> 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".   
      
   In fact nothing even remotely like the capitalists of the west on that.   
      
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