For example: Jaws crashed the shark population and Sideways changed the popularity of 2 different Wines.

  • Tedesche@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Some of the early science fiction novels had real impact by providing plausible guiding lights for actual scientists about which directions to go in their pursuit of technological advancements. It’s been said that the first step in innovation is imagination, not actual scientific progress.

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      Arthur C. Clarke wrote Islands in the Sky about what could happen if artificial satellites became a real thing.

      Prophetic.