Predictions of Future Technology
Despite being written prior to World War II, the story line accurately foreshadowed several notable advancements in technology and military theory & practice. These include:
- Remote piloted surveillance and attack drones.
- Immersive Telepresence
- Telecommuting
- Consumer E-purchasing
- Paratroopers
- The shortcomings of an air supremacy war without concomitant ground forces (proven in the Vietnam War)
- Night vision devices
- Bazookas
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Famous quotes containing the words predictions of, predictions, future and/or technology:
“The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.”
—Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)
“The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.”
—Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)
“What a prodigious growth this English race, especially the American branch of it, is having! How soon will it subdue and occupy all the wild parts of this continent and of the islands adjacent. No prophecy, however seemingly extravagant, as to future achievements in this way [is] likely to equal the reality.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body—we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!”
—Max Frisch (1911–1991)