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Originally Posted by lizardlady
Divine, I'm just out of bed and haven't got two functional brain cells yet to provide examples. BUT our lives are full of things inspired by science fiction. SF author Robert Heinlien wrote an excellent essay about it.
My brain is starting to function. Came up with a few examples...
Heinlein himself provided the idea for a watered.
Cell phones are the communicators from Star Trek.
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Oh I absolutely agree. Very good points. My reply was mainly in regards to “people having ripe imagination thinking that everything we read will come true”. No one is that gullible (unless of course we are talking about believers in conspiracies).
But yes of course lots of stuff someone dreamed about did become real