Comments on: Is the future of techology to be found in fiction? http://www.ruthstalkerfirth.com/is-the-future-of-techology-to-be-found-in-fiction docteur es sciences techniques (EPFL) Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:49:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Chris P http://www.ruthstalkerfirth.com/is-the-future-of-techology-to-be-found-in-fiction#comment-6500 Chris P Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:39:21 +0000 http://www.ruthstalkerfirth.com/is-the-future-of-techology-to-be-found-in-fiction#comment-6500 Well I think we can see this partly because fiction gives us an idea of what technology can be used for. With the idea of satellite tracking from Jules Verne, I'm sure it inspired a generation to dream of how they could realise this, influencing science to an extent in fuel of this dream, until we got where we are today. Fiction like using genetic modification to bring back the dinosaurs may have been "out there" at the time, but it gives us ideas as to what we can do with technology, and sort of creates a concrete goal to work towards. Just the thoughts I had whilst reading. BTW: totally out of date comment, but I found this blog entry whilst scouring the net for something completely unrelated, and it caught my eye. Great article! :D Well I think we can see this partly because fiction gives us an idea of what technology can be used for. With the idea of satellite tracking from Jules Verne, I’m sure it inspired a generation to dream of how they could realise this, influencing science to an extent in fuel of this dream, until we got where we are today.

Fiction like using genetic modification to bring back the dinosaurs may have been “out there” at the time, but it gives us ideas as to what we can do with technology, and sort of creates a concrete goal to work towards.

Just the thoughts I had whilst reading.
BTW: totally out of date comment, but I found this blog entry whilst scouring the net for something completely unrelated, and it caught my eye. Great article! :D

]]> By: Cris http://www.ruthstalkerfirth.com/is-the-future-of-techology-to-be-found-in-fiction#comment-101 Cris Thu, 10 May 2007 13:55:23 +0000 http://www.ruthstalkerfirth.com/is-the-future-of-techology-to-be-found-in-fiction#comment-101 I helped a friend with a Mac diagnose some networking problems a couple of days ago. Not having used a Mac since the 1990s, I was very happy to find that the Macs of today have a Unix command line! I was dying to type all of my favorite diagnostic commands (ping, netstat, tracert, etc.) - when my Mac-using friend saw the output of netstat, for example, she said "Do you actually understand that stuff?!" So, the computer which is purported to have the best GUI, actually now has a Unix command line: I thought of the very same scene from Jurassic Park! Now I am reading your blog :-P I helped a friend with a Mac diagnose some networking problems a couple of days ago. Not having used a Mac since the 1990s, I was very happy to find that the Macs of today have a Unix command line! I was dying to type all of my favorite diagnostic commands (ping, netstat, tracert, etc.) – when my Mac-using friend saw the output of netstat, for example, she said “Do you actually understand that stuff?!”

So, the computer which is purported to have the best GUI, actually now has a Unix command line: I thought of the very same scene from Jurassic Park! Now I am reading your blog :-P

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