All the Wonder that Would Be Exploring Past Notions of the Future /

• Main Author: Webb, Stephen (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Science and Fiction,
• Subjects: Popular works.; Astronomy.; Physics.; Technology.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Physics.; Popular Science in Astronomy.; Popular Science in Technology.; Popular Life Sciences.

It has been argued that science fiction (SF) gives a kind of weather forecast – not the telling of a fortune but rather the rough feeling of what the future might be like. The intention in this book is to consider some of these bygone forecasts made by SF and to use this as a prism through which to...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction
• Antigravity
• Space travel
• Aliens
• Time travel
• The Nature of Reality
• Invisibility
• Robots
• Transportation
• Immortality
• Mad Scientists
• Epilogue: a New Default Future?
• Index.