Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:14:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Drew Bittner <drewbitt at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Alternative reality v SF
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

--- Michael Walsh <MJW at press.jhu.edu> wrote:
> > drewbitt at yahoo.com 4/29/2005 11:12:38 AM >>>
>
> >SF can postulate multiple potential futures but it
> >will never map the way things *will* turn out. But
> so
> >many things we have now that we take for granted
> are
> >yesterday's pie-in-the-sky dreams-- would we have
> had
> >flip-up cellphones if not for Star Trek?
>
> Heck if I know.  Sounds like an interesting idea for
> an article.  It has
> been noted in the past that many of the NASA/JPL
> rocketeers were sf
> readers in their youth.
>
> mjw

When I came down to interview as a Presidential
Management Intern in 2002, I gave my resume to the
NASA table. They told me the next day that everyone in
their office was very excited that I'd worked for two
comic book companies-- of course, they didn't offer me
a job, but it was kind of fun.

Drew

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