Cherryh, 1988) Set on a harsh world whose settlers have a fractious relationship with Earth, this book looks at an attempt to push human cloning beyond the creation of a genetic duplicate. Twenty years later, carbon nanotubes were at the heart of NASA first serious study on space elevators. Although Clark didn't invent the concept of the space elevator, he did do some of the real-world calculations showing how such a structure might work, and even speculated that a carbon-based filament would make the ideal material for the elevator cable. Clark, 1979) If we ever actually build a space elevator-a high tension cable 100,000 km long suspended from a counterweight in high Earth orbit all the way down to the surface of the Earth, which would let people ride elevator cars into orbit-people will look back on this book the way nuclear submarine designers look back at 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea.
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A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the first or second laws.") Although Asimov was very hazy on how the "positronic brains" of his robots actually worked, the idea of a machine operating perfectly, but behaving strangely because of unexpected interactions between its instructions, would become all too familiar to later generations of computer programmers battling subtle software bugs. A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. I, Robot ( Isaac Asimov, 1950) Asimov actually invented the word "robotics," in 1941, and this collection of short stories canonized his most famous literary creation, the Three Laws of Robotics ("A robot may not harm a human being, or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.Its description of time travel in a four-dimensional universe presaged the cottage industry in theoretical space-time machines that has sprung up among physicists in recent decades.
Still, the 1895 book deserves credit for popularizing the idea that time travel might be done using scientific and technological methods, rather than the magical means used in earlier time travel stories.
Wells, 1895) There's a little bit of self-plagarism in this book, as the operating principles of the eponymous machine are pretty much directly lifted from an earlier short story written by Wells, called The Chronic Argonauts, published in 1888, seven years before The Time Machine. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea ( Jules Verne, 1870) Verne wrote some of the earliest works recognizable as science fiction (even though the term "science fiction" wouldn't enter popular culture for another 60 years.) Twenty Thousand Leagues is probably his most prescient work, anticipating submarine warfare (not for nothing was the first nuclear submarine called Nautilus), scuba diving, and even the taser.Me permitirán que mantenga el idioma original. Se justifica, en palabras de la publicación, porque son este tipo de historias, inspiradas en la ciencia y tecnología más vanguardista, las más citadas por científicos e ingenieros como inspiración para sus proyectos.Ī raíz de esto acaban de publicar una lista con las 10 mejores obras de este género, que en gran medida han inspirado la colección. Uno de mis géneros favoritos, dicho sea de paso.ĭicho esto, acabo de ver que Technology Review -publicación del M.I.T.- tiene previsto publicar a lo largo del año la colección TR:SF con relatos de ciencia ficción dura. Muchos de ustedes ya sabrán que la ciencia ficción dura es " un subgénero de la ciencia ficción caracterizado por conceder una especial relevancia a los detalles científicos o técnicos de la historia" ( Wikipedia dixit).