Via Making Light's Particles comes this astonishing list: A Timeline of Science Fiction Inventions (I'd have called it Imaginations), from weightlessness in 1638 (Francis Godwin) to Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (in 2000 -- Larry Niven, and under development even now).
It's damned amazing. Heinlein thought of a cellphone in 1953 in Assignment in Eternity.
"How come," he asked as he came abreast, "they had to search for you?"Posted by Linkmeister at February 18, 2008 12:48 PM | TrackBack"Left my pocketphone in my other suit," Coburn returned briefly. "Did it on purpose - I wanted a little peace and quiet. No luck."
hmmmm....
Posted by: RONW at February 18, 2008 05:43 PM