Besides callipygian women, of course...
Fiction (Or Science Fiction) puts forth ideas which can be imagined but may not yet be possible.
Who could have imagined a phone which required no land line?
Who would have thought that the products imagined as being futuristic in Wim Wedder's
Until the End of the World would today be commonplace
?
Wow, that's right! The Dick Tracy wristwatch phone! I'd forgotten about that!!! :))
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen that movie though...so what were the gadgets?
Callipygian, learnt something new today ;)
ReplyDeleteFiction is the fruit of and fuel to imagination. No imagination is horrible.
ReplyDeleteEvery battle plan is perfect, until it makes first contact with the enemy.
ReplyDeleteThe purpose of fiction is examining the effects of perfect planning,
@ Da'Flower - I just remember thinking that gadgets looked so futuristic when I first watched it years ago - now the same gadgets exist.
ReplyDelete@ brohammas and JK - Is dreaming the same thing as fiction?