7 Reasons Why Science Fiction Shapes The Future

Science fiction both in movies and books has shaped our desires and fears. And many top innovators of technology have been inspired by science fiction creating the many of the elements of the world world we live in today.

1. A scientist and a writer
One of the world’s most famous sci-fi writers is HG Wells who is famous for sci-fi classics such as The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds and The Island of Dr Moreau. Wells, however, was trained as a scientist. His books contained references to lasers, directed energy weapons, genetic engineering and even the atomic bomb. All penned in the 19th century, years before any of these things came close to being invented.

2. Inspired by Star Trek
Star Trek has many items of technology that have inspired inventors and writers around the world. Martin Cooper, director of research and development at telecommunications company Motorola, is famous for declaring that the communicator from the hit TV series Star Trek was a major inspiration for the development of the world’s first mobile phone.

3. Mars has two moons
A prediction most baffling and difficult to explain, is one made by Irish author Jonathan Swift in Gulliver’s Travels. In the 1726 novel Swift detailed that Mars had two moons. Of course it was then discovered that Mars did in fact has 2 moons!