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11 Real-Life Inventions Inspired By Science Fiction Novels

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You can roll your eyes all you want at the aliens and spaceships and dimension-hopping shenanigans of classic science fiction. You can deride sci-fi as "genre" writing, and you can choose to read only the realest of "realistic" fiction instead. But if you like listening to podcasts on your phone, or paying for things on your credit card, or using the occasional automatic door, then you owe a huge debt to sci-fi writers. Science fiction writing has inspired everything from underwater travel to massive multi-player online role-playing games. One author's fanciful imaginings becomes the next generations real-life technology. So here are just a few of the sci-fi books that inspired real world inventions, because science fiction has a real impact on science fact.

When we talk about the influences of science fiction on the real world, we often look to sci-fi movies and TV shows. Modern shows like Black Mirror seem to predict the (worst case scenario) future of our current technologies. And yes, it's true that older shows like Star Trek gave us the mobile phone (among other things) back in the day. But quite a few of the science nerds who grew up to create our modern day tech read actual science fiction books to get their ideas. Here are just a few of them:

'The World Set Free' by H.G. Wells

In more upsetting sci-fi predictions, H.G. Wells wrote The World Set Free about the potential benefits and dangers of harnessing atomic power. Wells thought this power would either utterly destroy society or force mankind to put aside violence and focus on hugs and making art. His 1914 book apparently inspired the scientist Leo Szilard to go ahead and figure out atomic energy in real life, leading to the invention of the atom bomb. So... hopefully Wells was only kind of right about weapons of mass destruction destroying life as we know it?
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'Clipper of the Clouds' or 'Robur the Conqueror' by Jules Verne

If Jules Verne liked anything, it was writing overly specific, hard sci-fi and then waiting for someone else to come along and make it into reality. The Nautilus wasn't the only fantastic vessel he inspired, either: a young boy named Igor Sikorsky read the Verne novel Clipper of the Clouds or Robur the Conqueror back in the day. Lil' Igor was so taken with the idea of a flying, lighter-than-air ship that he grew up to invent his very own flying machine, also known as the modern helicopter.
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'The War of the Worlds' by H.G. Wells

Verne and Wells pop up a lot when we're talking about classic sci-fi that influenced real life science. The main difference, though, is that Verne usually came up with fun new modes of transportation, and Wells usually came up with devastating new ways to wipe out most of humanity. The War of the Worlds is about Martians invading Earth, but the American scientist Robert H. Goddard actually did use it as a jumping off point for inventing a mode of transportation. The liquid fueled rocket was inspired by Wells' terrifying Martians and their interplanetary ships.
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'Snow Crash' by Neal Stephenson

The 1992 novel Snow Crash features an immersive "Metaverse," where people can log in and interact online via virtual avatars. This system captured the imagination of one Philip Rosedale, who had already been experimenting with virtual communities. The fully-fledged imagery of the Metaverse inspired him to create the online game Second Life, which in turn inspired a whole slew of virtual worlds and customizable digital avatars.
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'Looking Backward' by Edward Bellamy

Written in the late 1800's, Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward imagines the fantastical future of the year 2000. He got a lot of things wrong, especially since he assumed that America would be a socialist utopia by the 21st Century. But he did predict/invent one totally real thing that we're still using today: the credit card. Looking Backward is spookily accurate about how credit cards work, right down to having a receipt for both customer and merchant.
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'Frankenstein' by Mary Shelley

Honestly, Mary Shelley pretty much invented the entire genre of science fiction with Frankenstein, so she should get credit for the whole lot of this list. But more specifically, Frankenstein captured the fuzzy scientific notions of resurrecting a body using electricity. No one has managed to cobble together a living corpse monster yet, but the technology in Shelley's book does exist in a less fantastical form these days: the defibrillator, which is capable of restarting a human heart through a shock of electrical current.
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'Fahrenheit 451' by Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451 gives us a dystopia in which everyone is zonked out on technology and books are routinely burned. Ray Bradbury would probably be less than thrilled to know that his "sea shells" and "thimble radios," as described in the book, have come true in the form of earbuds and Bluetooth headsets. Nearly everyone in the world owns a pair of earbuds. But at least some of them are using those earbuds to listen to audiobooks, right?
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11 Real-Life Inventions Inspired By Science Fiction Novels

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You can roll your eyes all you want at the aliens and spaceships and dimension-hopping shenanigans of classic science fiction. You can deride sci-fi as "genre" writing, and you can choose to read only the realest of "realistic" fiction instead. But...

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5 Fictional Inventions From Literature That Became Real

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Long before these modern-day inventions became real, their fictional precursors existed in books, essays, and short stories. Talk about prescient prose!

Texans Lew Hewitt and Dee Horton are thought to have officially invented the automatic door in 1954. But 55 years earlier, the concept of a motion-sensitive sliding entryway first appeared in H.G. Wells' 1899 book When the Sleeper Wakes. One difference? Wells' door folded upwards instead of moving side-to-side like today's technology.

2. WIRELESS DEVICES.

In 1964, Isaac Asimov's essay "Visit to the World's Fair of 2014" imagined what technology-and humanity- would be like 50 years later. Asimov's forecast wasn't entirely accurate, but he did predict the advent of wireless technology, writing that the "appliances of 2014 will have no electric cords, of course, for they will be powered by long-lived batteries."

3. THE INTERNET.

Throughout history, many people have come up with the concept of a global communication system. However, Mark Twain's 1898 short story "From The 'London Times' of 1904" described a fictional invention called a "telectroscope," which worked as a global telephone. The device made "daily doings of the globe...visible to everybody, and audibly discussable too, by witnesses separated by any number of leagues." Sounds like the Internet, huh?

4. RADAR.

Not only did Hugo Gernsbacher found the world's first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories, he also provided the world with the very first description of radar in his 1911 novel Ralph 124C 41+. The technology, Gernsbacher wrote, would be "a pulsating polarized ether wave, [that] if directed on a metal object can be reflected in the same manner as a light-ray is reflected from a bright surface or from a mirror..."

5. SPACE TRAVEL.

In Jules Verne's 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon, a fictional team of inventors use a cannon to shoot a spacecraft into the sky. In 1926, 61 years after the work was published, Robert H. Goddard launched the world's first liquid-fuel rocket. Thirty-five years after that, Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space, completing an orbit of the Earth in 1961.
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Long before these modern-day inventions became real, their fictional precursors existed in books, essays, and short stories. Talk about prescient prose! Texans Lew Hewitt and Dee Horton are thought to have officially invented the automatic door in 1954. But 55 years earlier, the concept of a motion-sensitive sliding entryway first appeared in H.G.

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The story of a 14-year-old girl who won a landmark legal battle to be preserved cryogenically has many people wondering how such technology actually works - for many of us, it seems like something straight out of science fiction.
But sci-fi has a long history of becoming science fact, as outlandish creations inspire real research.

Remarkable realities

Tractor beams
In Star Wars, the unfortunate heroes are caught in a "tractor beam" that freezes their ship and pulls them towards the enemy. Star Trek has a similar weapon.

An Australian university can do the same thing - although its experiments with lasers could only manage to move a tiny object (one fifth of a millimetre) along about 20cm.

British researchers, meanwhile, have been experimenting with sound waves to shift objects through the air - and can just about manage objects the size of a pea at about 40cm away.
The moon landing
In 1865, Jules Verne published the outlandish novel From the Earth to the Moon, in which three Americans are fired into space in a gun. In his story, the three men launch a lunar vessel called Columbiad, weighing a little under 20,000 lbs, at a cost of $5.5m.

A century later, America did send three men to the moon - in the command module Columbia, which weighed 26,300 lbs, at a cost of $16bn.

To cap it all off, Verne's estimate of $5.5m was equivalent to about $13bn in 1969.
No more needles - the hypospray
In the world of Star Trek (which also predicted flip phones), any ill character is almost miraculously healed by an "injection" from a hypospray - a device with no needles that delivers the cure painlessly, through the skin.

That is a jet injector, and although famous from the TV show, actually predates it. Aaron Ismach invented the jet injector in 1960, six years before Star Trek. It was used for mass vaccinations - especially in the military - since it could be used over and over again. But that brought contamination risks, so it has fallen out of use.

However, the idea hasn't gone away. In 2012, MIT released an updated design for the "hypospray" which can be programmed for many uses, and inject drugs at the speed of sound, which they hope will eventually eliminate the need for needles.
Energy weapons
We're a long way from laser pistols, but a modern energy weapon is the US military's "active denial system", used for crowd control. The non-lethal weapon works like a microwave oven, and causes extreme discomfort as it heats the target's body underneath the skin - and causing the target to flee.

And the Taser personal defence weapon is actually an acronym for Thomas A Swift's Electric Rifle.

Nasa researcher Jack Cover, who created the device, named it after a 1911 book he read as a child, in which the eponymous hero invents a gun that fires bolts of lightning.
Wells and Asimov
Most remarkable of all, perhaps, is the eerie accuracy of a handful of science fiction writers in the 20th century.

HG Wells predicted automatic sliding doors in 1899, and the atomic bomb in his novel The World Set Free, written in 1913 and published the following year.

Isaac Asimov, however, made some startlingly accurate predictions about 2014, in an essay to mark the 1964 World's Fair,

They included global video calling, robots that would "neither be common nor very good in 2014", flatscreen TVs and early 3D and self-driving cars.

Impractical impossibilities

Such predictions suggest anything is possible. But there are still plenty of limits on what we can do. Some research, while reported on with incredible headlines, simply hasn't reached any practical application yet.
Invisibility 'cloak'
Whether you're a Harry Potter fan or a space traveller, "cloaking" is often used to refer to invisibility, bending light around an object to make it disappear.

This can actually be done for small objects - if you want to arrange a set of lenses in a precise arrangement, using the Rochester Cloak technique, it can be reproduced at home. But with its strict set up, it's just an optical trick.

Other "cloaking" attempts have been able to hide objects from microwaves or radar, but there's nothing yet that can fool the human eye in practical scenarios.
Power armour
From Iron Man to future dystopia, powered armour for soldiers has always been a staple in sci-fi. The US military is among those with an eye on the idea.

TALOS - that's a Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit - has often been described as an "Iron Man suit", but is far less exotic than the superhero's attire.

Instead, the US Army hoped to create a "smart" bodysuit, which monitors soldiers' vital signs, with a powered exoskeleton to increase strength.

The project is rumoured to use liquid armour which solidifies when hit by bullets - but very little is known about its progress.
Teleporters
The "transporter", a staple of sci-fi, is probably impossible. But that doesn't stop it making headlines.

In a process called quantum entanglement, a change made to one particle in lab conditions can affect another one, some distance away. It's a way to send information from one place to another, without it travelling in the space between, hence "quantum teleportation".

But the particles involved - qubits - are information only, and there's no evidence that it can be used for atoms, molecules and certainly not people - but it could lead to a futuristic internet.
Warp drive theory
In Star Trek and many other films and television shows, "warp drive" is a way to travel faster than light (which should be impossible) by bending space around a spacecraft.

The closest we have is called an "Alcubierre drive", after the mathematician who proposed it.

The idea is to shrink space in front of the ship and expand space behind it - so the ship itself never has to travel at light speed.

But it has so many practical problems it may never actually exist, and Nasa generally considers it impossible - despite the occasional piece of research on the topic.

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From tractor beams to warp drive, sci-fi has inspired serious real-life research.

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Ten inventions inspired by science fiction

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Known as the father of the modern submarine, American inventor Simon Lake had been captivated by the idea of undersea travel and exploration ever since he read Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea in 1870. Lake's innovations included ballast tanks, divers' compartments and the periscope. His company built the Argonaut -the first submarine to operate successfully in the open ocean, in 1898-earning him a congratulatory note from Verne.

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Ten Inventions Inspired by Science Fiction

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Known as the father of the modern submarine, American inventor Simon Lake had been captivated by the idea of undersea travel and exploration ever since he read Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea in 1870. Lake's innovations included ballast tanks, divers' compartments and the periscope.