Do you believe that Science Fiction can become Science Fact?I think science fiction authors do set out to shape the future, as much by showing us the consequences of a technology that we might want to avoid as by showing us what we might want. Attempts to simply predict haven't been very successful--one interesting example is the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. The people making that movie sought to make the views of daily life an accurate prediction for 2001. We are far from having routine travel in space and a moon base.
The example I use is the talented auto mechanic who can fix anything wrong with any car. I make the point that one of my daughter's teachers xx years ago praised such a person for having a deep knowledge of physics. I ask my students -- many of whom are struggling with freshman physics -- if they agree. Most do not.If you agree, in what sense do you mean it?
Welcome to Hist 323 for Spring 2005. I'm simply picking up last year's blog, so you can see what I posted last year below and in the archives. When you start creating you own blogs I will clear out last year's student blogs and list yours in the list on the right.
This is a course that is going to do several different things
You can write about any of those areas in your blog.
