Scientists dilemma: Science Vs Science Fiction

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Source: New Scientist

 

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Ten Inventions Inspired by Science Fiction

The innovators behind objects like the cellphone or the helicopter took inspiration from works like "Star Trek" and War of the Worlds.

Submarine, Helicopter, Rocket, Atomic Power, Combat Information Center, The Waldo, Cellphone, Taser, QuickTime, Second Life

Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ten-inventions-inspired-by-science-fiction-128080674/#5LhxurdTvwrccdOW.99

It can be overwhelming to make this realization, but we're now actually living in the future that science fiction books and films have been telling us about for so long. And for the most part, these authors and filmmakers did a pretty decent job of predicting what the future might hold for us -- technologically speaking, anyway.
For every laughably off-base sci-fi prediction, there's one that's almost eerily on the mark (the dead-on iPad prototype in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"). Even fairy tales and fantasy stories from centuries ago will get it right every so often. It's a stretch, but you could call the magic mirror in "Beauty and the Beast" an 18th-century predecessor of FaceTime and Skype.


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For innovation dreaming is important...And that runs wild in a science fiction!

 

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Yes, it is great to dream, but when you wake up, may be you should make some effort to convert it to reality. I believe that you dream only what ever your subconscious mind knows. If you keep dreaming of mundane scaring, next meal, or some such silly things, and you keep believing in irrational and superstitions, it will not lead you to innovations. You must have rational thinking, even to dream things that you can innovate.

It is not to say that scientist do not have superstitions, but the overriding traits of innovators is to have a rational thinking.

 

[vgane]

Yes, it is great to dream, but when you wake up, may be you should make some effort to convert it to reality. I believe that you dream only what ever your subconscious mind knows. If you keep dreaming of mundane scaring, next meal, or some such silly things, and you keep believing in irrational and superstitions, it will not lead you to innovations. You must have rational thinking, even to dream things that you can innovate.

It is not to say that scientist do not have superstitions, but the overriding traits of innovators is to have a rational thinking.

Innovation is directly related to effort...Thomas Alva Edison who developed the electric bulb rightly said that GENIUS IS 99% perspiration and that there is no substitute for hard work!