<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:27 PM, Larry Sheldon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:larrysheldon@cox.net" target="_blank">larrysheldon@cox.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br><div id=":20o" class="" style="overflow:hidden"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline"><h2 id=":1xy" class="" tabindex="-1">Fiction->History</h2></div></div></blockquote><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline">There are two sorts of SciFi (aside from the Fantastic) - those that aren't facts yet</div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline">but likely will be if we persevere, and those that could be facts if we screw things up even worse. Those writing near-term SF are well advised to leverage William Gibson's aphorism "The future is already here - it's just not evenly distributed" to sniff out what is in the labs and the pockets of the early adopters. <br></div></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div id=":20o" class="" style="overflow:hidden"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline"><span id=":1xz" class=""></span></div>In 1977 there was a book titled “The Adolescence of P-1” (Thomas Joseph<br>
Ryan) </div></blockquote></div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">I thought I remembered this was either serialized or first appeared as a novella in one of the magazines before release as a book, but Google finds no proof of that? Odd.<br> There was a flurry of pre-cyber-punk AI / rogue-programmer stories in Analog in the late 70's, i recall one featured a female hacker but i forget the title, and that it was the month before or after P-1 so it seemed a trend. <br></div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">There are plenty of listicles that catalog SciFi stories/concepts/widgets that became reality -- partly through invention of the engineering fact being easier after invention of the idea as fiction, as testified to by the inventor of Cellphones being inspired by Kirk's (Roddenbery's) communicator -- but has this been treated in the full academic style as literature-and-society or history of science? I don't know. I am remiss in not surveying academic treatment of SciFi as LitCrit in between
Padlipsky's thesis (latterly of MULTICS and this I-H list) and Gannon's [1] /Rumors of War/ [2] and Pournelle's SIGMA [3], which respectively study and practice influence of SF on military and government policy. <br> If there isn't yet an academic study of the influence of P-1 and the following Cyber-punk movement on Silicon valley et al in any/all aspects (network, OS, application, User interface), it's due, it's ripe. <br> If we don't get an answer on this list, i can ask Chuck Gannon and network through my other SF&F friends to see who if anyone is working such. <br></div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">(I do highly recommend /Rumors of War/, particularly if you admired MAP's literary writing style as i do and are interested in social impact of early English-language SciFi on the military.) </div><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">[1]
<a href="http://www.charlesegannon.com/BioTop.html">http://www.charlesegannon.com/BioTop.html</a><br>[2] <a href="http://isbn.nu/9780742540354">http://isbn.nu/9780742540354</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">[3] <a href="http://www.onthemedia.org/story/129496-science-fiction-in-the-national-interest/transcript/">http://www.onthemedia.org/story/129496-science-fiction-in-the-national-interest/transcript/</a> </div><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Bill Ricker<br><a href="mailto:bill.n1vux@gmail.com" target="_blank">bill.n1vux@gmail.com</a><div><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux</a> <br></div></div></div>
</div></div>