LEADER 04085nam 22006255 450 001 9910254581503321 005 20200704005802.0 010 $a3-319-51759-7 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-51759-9 035 $a(CKB)3710000001307103 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-51759-9 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4853793 035 $a(PPN)201473313 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001307103 100 $a20170503d2017 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAll the Wonder that Would Be $eExploring Past Notions of the Future /$fby Stephen Webb 205 $a1st ed. 2017. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (XIII, 344 p. 80 illus., 71 illus. in color.) 225 1 $aScience and Fiction,$x2197-1188 311 $a3-319-51758-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $aPreface -- Introduction -- Antigravity -- Space travel -- Aliens -- Time travel -- The Nature of Reality -- Invisibility -- Robots -- Transportation -- Immortality -- Mad Scientists -- Epilogue: a New Default Future? -- Index. 330 $aIt has been argued that science fiction (SF) gives a kind of weather forecast ? not the telling of a fortune but rather the rough feeling of what the future might be like. The intention in this book is to consider some of these bygone forecasts made by SF and to use this as a prism through which to view current developments in science and technology. In each of the ten main chapters - dealing in turn with antigravity, space travel, aliens, time travel, the nature of reality, invisibility, robots, means of transportation, augmentation of the human body, and, last but not least, mad scientists - common assumptions once made by the SF community about how the future would turn out are compared with our modern understanding of various scientific phenomena and, in some cases, with the industrial scaling of computational and technological breakthroughs. A further intention is to explain how the predictions and expectations of SF were rooted in the scientific orthodoxy of their day, and use this to explore how our scientific understanding of various topics has developed over time, as well as to demonstrate how the ideas popularized in SF subsequently influenced working scientists. Since gaining a BSc in physics from the University of Bristol and a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Manchester, Stephen Webb has worked in a variety of universities in the UK. He is a regular contributor to the Yearbook of Astronomy series and has published an undergraduate textbook on distance determination in astronomy and cosmology as well as several popular science books. 410 0$aScience and Fiction,$x2197-1188 606 $aPhysics 606 $aAstronomy 606 $aTechnology 606 $aLife sciences 606 $aPopular Science in Physics$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Q29000 606 $aPopular Science in Astronomy$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Q11009 606 $aPopular Science in Technology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Q36000 606 $aPopular Life Sciences$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Q25000 615 0$aPhysics. 615 0$aAstronomy. 615 0$aTechnology. 615 0$aLife sciences. 615 14$aPopular Science in Physics. 615 24$aPopular Science in Astronomy. 615 24$aPopular Science in Technology. 615 24$aPopular Life Sciences. 676 $a809.38762 700 $aWebb$b Stephen$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$062569 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910254581503321 996 $aAll the Wonder that Would Be$91912872 997 $aUNINA