I’m quite sure a lot of you feel the same, and need something special to happen before you’re “amazed” again. Perhaps it’s because I’ve been a sci-fi bookworm from the age of five, or because of my constant exposure to technology at Digit over the years but nothing shocks me anymore. The internet, the moon landings, handheld computers, tiny cameras, robotic assembly lines, artificial satellites, satellite s, word-wide T V networks, instantaneous information flow, the orgasmatron, all of this was “imagined” by sci-fi writers as much as a century before even rudimentary versions of these were available. It’s almost as if most of humanity’s inventions are the result of our sci-fi fed imaginations, and research dollars spent to make those dreams a reality. However, almost everything we can touch and feel today was indeed the stuff of dreams and the fantasy worlds of dreamers such as Issac Asimov and and Arthur C Clarke Clarke have been used as fuel to carve our current slice of reality. Today, you and I are doing things with Today gadgets and computers that no one, except for a few sci-fi writers, would have dreamt possible a few decades back. That’s the beauty of technology and the way it has exploded into our lives over the past three decades. If you took this month’s Digit, and gave it to someone in 1979, they’d ask you whether it was some new sci-f i publication.
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