Science Fiction Timeline of Inventions

Re:Science Fiction Timeline of Inventions by lucasjung on Wednesday May 11, 2011 @08:56PM (#2539093)

I was hoping for more of a side-by-side:

Invention - Date Invented in Fiction - Date Invented in Reality (if ever)

Knowing when someone dreamed it up is neat, but I was hoping to see how reality stacks up next to their predictions.

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Re:Science Fiction Timeline of Inventions by nitrogen on Thursday May 12, 2011 @01:52AM (#2539587)

I would add another column before the last: date fiction claims invented in reality.

For example:

Warp Drive - 1966 - 2063 - N/A

But alas, the site appears to be dedicated to books, so Star Trek's reinventions of older ideas would probably be ineligible for inclusion.

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Re:Science Fiction Timeline of Inventions by lucasjung on Thursday May 12, 2011 @05:44AM (#2539977)

That's actually what I had in mind. My columns would have been:

Warp Drive - 2063 - N/A

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