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May 23, 2006Comments: 0 · Posts: 2604 · Topics: 117
sci-fi always was speculation based on present day technology when the content was written. Like the HAL900 in 2001, a space odyssey is visually matching those days technology with large buttons and dials and big cameras and when Clarke wrote it, it was a bit more primitive and written in comparison to an existing object we can relate to. Now when we fast forward to I Robot, the same villain robot is represented in a different visual style matching current day technology way too far from what 1960's could predict. It was always a futuristic version of our current day objects. We added personal jet packs in one movie, time travel - aquas all time favorite subject was all over books and movies. Even the idea and looks of computers changed and evolved with time when man discovered several subjects can be mixed to get various new looks.
And this science fiction never originated till there was scientific revolution in the Europe. Till then it was all about palaces, kings, horses, monsters and witches which kidnapped the princess, all time favorite God and his magics, Mermaids, white foggy dream worlds and so on.