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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“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)
“Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power ... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)
“The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.”
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
“... any fiction ... is bound to be transposed autobiography.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)