Science Fiction Leads to the Future
Science fiction, especially hard science fiction, has always had a element of predicting the future. We believe that science fiction does, in part, lead to the future. This website will bring together aspects that lend to that notion.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Arthur C. Clarke's Third Law
Science fiction reality in the palm of your hand
Qualcomm has initiated the Tricorder X PRIZE:
A $10 million competition to bring health care to the palm of your hand.
Imagine a portable, wireless device in the palm of your hand that monitors and diagnoses your health conditions. That's the technology envisioned by this competition, and it will allow unprecedented access to personal health metrics. The end result: Radical innovation in health care that will give individuals far greater choices in when, where, and how they receive care. Learn more about the competition check out Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize.
The World Wide Web wakes up
Robert J. Sawyer, an awarding winning science fiction writer, has developed the concept of a conscious World Wide Web in "The WWW Trilogy".
Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at math — and blind. Still, she can surf the net with the best of them, following its complex paths clearly in her mind.
When a Japanese researcher develops a new signal-processing implant that might give her sight, she jumps at the chance, flying to Tokyo for the operation.
But Caitlin's brain long ago co-opted her primary visual cortex to help her navigate online. Once the implant is activated, instead of seeing reality, the landscape of the World Wide Web explodes into her consciousness, spreading out all around her in a riot of colors and shapes. While exploring this amazing realm, she discovers something — some other — lurking in the background. And it's getting smarter ...
Check out this and Robert J. Sawyer's other works at SFWriter.com
Space Elevator
In 1979, space elevators were introduced to a broader audience with the publication of Arthur C. Clarke's novel, The Fountains of Paradise, in which engineers construct a space elevator on top of a mountain peak in the fictional island country of Taprobane (loosely based on Sri Lanka, albeit moved south to the Equator). The space elevator has been used several times in science fiction. Check out the Wikipeda: Space Elevator