I love reading science fiction, the idea of imagining what the future may be like. Some of the authors of science fiction really did predict the future. Arthur C. Clark described the iPad in 2001: A Space Odyssey and also predicted such things as using satellite relays to communicate and tourists in space. Jules Verne imagined the spaceship and the submarine in his novels From Earth to Moon and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The word robot came from Karel Capek's 1920 play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots). H.G. Wells came up with the concept for automatic doors in The Sleeper Awakes. Ray Bradbury predicted interactive television and personal radios, like iPods, in Fahrenheit 451. Mary Shelly's Frankenstein predicted the ability to do medical transplants. What will the sci-fi- novels predict for our future? The Internet implanted in our brain like the characters in M.T. Anderson's book Feed?
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