Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 11:40:05 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Alternative reality v SF
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> drewbitt at yahoo.com 4/29/2005 11:12:38 AM >>>

snippage

>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.  I has
been noted in the past that many of the NASA/JPL rocketeers were sf
readers in their youth.

mjw