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I, like my twin am a Science Fiction fan. I'm not really that into DoctorWHO, but in my game it makes for a good callsign. There are lots of TV shows with a Sci-Fi twist that have predicted the technology of the future.
The first episode of The Lone Gunmen, a spin-off of The X Files, was broadcast in April 2001. In that episode the plot ran to the heroes uncovering elements of the US military trying to gain massive increases to their budget by conspiring an incident. The incident: having a loaded passenger jet fly at New York's World Trade Centre. Now we know that two passenger jets were flown into both towers and since then there have been massive budget increases to cope with the war against terrorism. Sure the US military had nothing to do with what eventually happened but boy things got blurred between real life and the plot. In Australia the show was screened by channel 7 just weeks before September 11, and that particular episode will not screen again in any re-runs.
The first episode of Doctor WHO was broadcast in 1963 and featured a student who seemed to know a lot about the past and the future but not the present, thinking Britain was using decimal currency. She covered her identity by saying it hadn't started yet. It didn't until 1971.
Space: 1999 which was filmed from 1975 to 1977, had the premise that in 1999 a nuclear explosing on earth from all the stock-piled nuclear waste would cause the moon to break free from Earth's orbit. Well we know that didn't happen but the show did predict that flares would be back in fashion.
Lost In Space which was made from 1965 to 1968 predictedthat in 1997 there would be interstellar flight. Maybe by 2007?
Land Of The Giants produced from 1968 to 1972 predicted that by 1983 spaceships would be making routine passenger flights. The spaceshuttle has been making routine flights and passengers can only a few years off.
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy way back in 1981 predicted the e-book with hand-held reader.
So Sci-Fi is not all that out there.
Dreams today, reality the day after tomorrow.
The first episode of The Lone Gunmen, a spin-off of The X Files, was broadcast in April 2001. In that episode the plot ran to the heroes uncovering elements of the US military trying to gain massive increases to their budget by conspiring an incident. The incident: having a loaded passenger jet fly at New York's World Trade Centre. Now we know that two passenger jets were flown into both towers and since then there have been massive budget increases to cope with the war against terrorism. Sure the US military had nothing to do with what eventually happened but boy things got blurred between real life and the plot. In Australia the show was screened by channel 7 just weeks before September 11, and that particular episode will not screen again in any re-runs.
The first episode of Doctor WHO was broadcast in 1963 and featured a student who seemed to know a lot about the past and the future but not the present, thinking Britain was using decimal currency. She covered her identity by saying it hadn't started yet. It didn't until 1971.
Space: 1999 which was filmed from 1975 to 1977, had the premise that in 1999 a nuclear explosing on earth from all the stock-piled nuclear waste would cause the moon to break free from Earth's orbit. Well we know that didn't happen but the show did predict that flares would be back in fashion.
Lost In Space which was made from 1965 to 1968 predictedthat in 1997 there would be interstellar flight. Maybe by 2007?
Land Of The Giants produced from 1968 to 1972 predicted that by 1983 spaceships would be making routine passenger flights. The spaceshuttle has been making routine flights and passengers can only a few years off.
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy way back in 1981 predicted the e-book with hand-held reader.
So Sci-Fi is not all that out there.
Dreams today, reality the day after tomorrow.
