1. Atom bomb
It is not difficult to imagine a big explosion, but Robert Cromie (1856-1907) imagined a means to do things that eventually will become a reality. In the krack of Doom, he wrote about the weapons that use atomic energy risk factors destroy nearly two square miles of land. More than four decades later, the Manhattan Project going well.
2. Internet
Books William Gibson, Neuromancer, as well as set the foundation for the genre of cyberpunk and the internet (or more precisely, the World Wide Web). In a dystopian world, almost everyone can access the global computer network that uses a special brain interface, which allows all people on this planet to exchange information quickly. Sounds familiar?
3. Space Travel (Travel to outer space)
Although the novel in 1865 titled "From the Earth to the Moon" tells the story of Comedy, Jules Verne did some serious calculations to re-appoint the story of three people trying to travel to the moon using a cannon. Some of his theories and equations that accurately turned out to surprise those who did the Apollo missions, and he even correctly predicted that there will be a weight in space.
4. Robot (R.U.R. by Karel Capek, Metropolis)
The idea to build artificial life has existed for centuries, but the term "robot" was first introduced in Karel Capek play, RUR (Rossum's Universal Robots). However, to see it not materialize until 1927, the film Metropolis was released illustrate that people are beginning to see robots as humanoid machines that can be controlled by a programmer.
5. PDA or Pocket Computer
In 1974, when most computers are big enough to fill the entire room, Larry Niven envisioned a pocket-sized version of his novel "The Mote in God's Eye". Narrated "pocket computer" is widely used for mathematical calculations and notes, but with their communication functions, Niven also described it as Blackberry or iPhone.
6. VCR / DVD Player
When most of the world admired the invention of moving images in the 1890s, HG Wells was already thinking of ways to make it better. In one plot in his novel, someone woke up, then find a machine that seems to store and play movies for personal entertainment.
7. Satellite
Edward Everett Hale's first writer who explores the idea of a satellite in the short story, "The Brick Moon," after the famous science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke first proposed satellite as a tool for mass communication. He wrote an article in 1945 that describes the communication device floating in orbit to provide high-speed global communications. Seven years later, Sputnik was launched.
8. Computer Virus
science fiction not only inspire the good inventions. When the researchers deliberately created the first computer virus in 1975, they described it as "worms." Term is taken from John Brunner's novel, The Shockwave Rider ', in which "tapeworm" began infecting computers worldwide.
9. Taser
When Jack Cover first developed a prototype for the deadly rifle, he was inspired from the novel by Victor Appleton in 1911 that he read while still a child "Thomas A. Swift 's Electric Rifle. ", One of which displays an" electric gun "used for hunting.
10. Translation Software
"Babel Fish" is not just a random name from AltaVista that comes with their web translation software. This is actually a gadget from the novel "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" 1971 that can translate any language after a person is inserted into the ear.
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