Future Tense The Problem With Prediction

Hugo Gernsback wrote a novel in 1911 called Ralph 124C41+. �In it, he predicted things like night baseball and motorized roller skates and all kinds of other things that we take for granted today. �He established science fiction as a literature of prediction. �For the next three decades, much of science fiction was about the coming age of technology. �Science fiction writers pondered death rays, nuclear war, 3D television, super-computers, and even the preposterous idea that someday men would fly to the moon. �Asimov predicted robots and Clarke predicted communication satellites. �Heinlein predicted cellphones and CAD. �Leinster predicted the internet.

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