Is Science Fiction Replacing Science Fact?
Science fiction books revolve around the facts of science and is not something completely imaginary or fake. Its furture predictions or visions are based on the present science facts. It includes stories which deal with the future technologies and its’ utility to man. Therefore, it cannot be said that it is replacing science facts, as it is based on it.
they say "Fiction is what we point to when we see it…"
It is a part of human imagination, but unlike just fantasy, science fiction lets your imagination wander scientifically. So, you can’t say that fiction is replacing science facts. Limitations of physics and nature are excelled in fantasies. We all love to see the world we can’t feel in real. I think, these science fictions which gives wings to our imagination, also adds fuel to our will to invent more. The technologies like teleportation, telepathy are fictious right now, but that certainly gives some spark to rethink and build these for human race…
Given a thought, we or our grandchildren may enjoy these technologies in future.
And hence, i would like to see today’s science fictions be replaced in tomorrow’s reality.
The term science fiction has worn many hats over the years. But it seems that these days, fiction is becoming science, and science is becoming fiction. In the early days of the genre, during the 19th Century, Science fiction stories dealt with future technology and man’s ability to use that technology for good or bad. When you look at the works of the Fathers of science fiction, Jules Vern and H.G. Wells, even then, there was a split in how science and human wisdom were viewed. Vern was a visionary who believed that technology would be a wondrous boon to mankind. He used the science of the day and extrapolated it, envisioning that one day we’d have rockets that would go to the moon, or nuclear subs sailing the seven seas. Some stories extolled man’s ingenuity, whiles others warned that in the wrong hands, man would wrought evil upon the world with technology. Wells was an optimist, and wrote stories about man using technology to one day create utopian societies. However, Wells, too wro
