When Fiction becomes reality!

[Nightshade]

So much early 20th century scifi has become reality its strange.
I mean did you know that Sir Edger Burroghs Rice (of Tarzan fame) did a book on Cloning its called Monster Men and is my faviorate by him I think. Jules Verne 2000 leagues under the sea and the one about visiting the moon.
Anyway I was wondering If anyone knew of anymore that this is true of.
**edit** ohh and mustnt forget 1984 "Big brother is watching" maybe.

[nypoet22]

i think political usage of the media has brought us closer to the world of 1984 than at any time in history. things are not like that everywhere, but it's already headed in that direction, and if we aren't careful...


So much early 20th century scifi has become reality its strange.
I mean did you know that Sir Edger Burroghs Rice (of Tarzan fame) did a book on Cloning its called Monster Men and is my faviorate by him I think. Jules Verne 2000 leagues under the sea and the one about visiting the moon.
Anyway I was wondering If anyone knew of anymore that this is true of.
**edit** ohh and mustnt forget 1984 "Big brother is watching" maybe.

[Capnplank]

Watch tv for more than 30 minutes around here and you're likely to see enough drug commercials to bring up Brave New World memories.

H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds also supposedly predicted/foretold of at least three new types of warfare and/or weaponry -- air strikes, blitzkriegs, and biological warfare. Not to mention that pandemonium that arises when there's an attack on a city in the modern U.S....

[mono]

Though, unfortunately, I cannot call myself a big fan of science fiction or fantasy, I remember loooong ago reading H.G. Wells' The Island Of Dr. Moreau. By the amount of genetic engineering and cloning in new-age science, both to better mankind and for unnecessary reasons, one can certainly see how the theories of this story came to life.
Another story I found absolutely amazing: Edgar Allan Poe's lesser-known work, The Unparalleled Adventures Of One Hans Pfaal, in which a man abandons his family to fly to the moon in a hot-air balloon. One could simply see the impossibility in this event, but, ironically, according to modern day science, Poe's fictional character, in his journal, described the Earth's atmosphere winds and the surface of the moon shockingly accurately.

[Taliesin]

We remember some ancient Roman chap, we think that he was called Lucretius, who described absolutely accurately the Brown movement.

[mono]

We remember some ancient Roman chap, we think that he was called Lucretius, who described absolutely accurately the Brown movement.
Yes! I remember that too, I think, in De Rerum Natura (or The Nature of Things). :)
Democritus, another thinker of the time, thought similar material.

[PeterL]

Arthur C. Clrke wrote of geosynchronous satellites in the 1940's. When they were developed, they couldn't be patented because they were proir art.
He also wrote "The Man Who Ploughed the Sea" about extracting minerals from ocean water. In the late 1990's some engineers came up with that idea and tried to patent it. Clarke sent a copy of the story. They withdrew their patent application.