Technology in science fiction has helped create many common topics found in science fiction today. There have been authors who have taken innovations and have elaborated and created what they thought future technology would be and how it would be used. Today, new technology has brought about new theories and questions that authors have tried to explain in their writings. Due to the new breakthroughs in technology, science fiction has been able to create new genres for these discoveries and have allowed Science Fiction authors their own expansion on these new ideas.
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