By A. Bowdoin Van Riper
piloted via human clones and conversing animals. critical accidents are healed with
the wave of a clinical gizmo. The media makes all of it glance effortless. Can scientists
hope to complete such striking feats within the actual international, or are they merely
flights of fancy? This ebook is a enjoyable examine what can, and cannot, be achieved
with present know-how in ultra-modern laboratory experiments. This assortment of
eighty-one brief essays is an try to separate truth from dramatic license
in renowned culture's therapy of technology and a few of the applied sciences most
deeply prompted by way of it. each one access offers with a science-related item, idea,
person, procedure, or notion. every one in brief summarizes the present understanding
of the subject after which discusses its portrayal in pop culture and, where
possible, the roots of that portrayal. every one access concludes with a listing of
related entries and a short record of instructed readings particular to that topic.
Fans of The Jetsons, megastar Trek, and Star
Wars will study the evidence in the back of the fiction via entries that describe
the clinical innovations and methods at the display, and the way they differ
from the truth. Van Riper exhibits us who innovators like Charles Darwin,
Benjamin Franklin, and Isaac Newton fairly have been ahead of they have been mythologized.
He discusses how animals similar to chimpanzees, dolphins, and elephants are
portrayed in books and flicks, and what we actually find out about animal
intelligence. This ebook lifts the curtain on technology fiction, revealing how and
where clinical legislation were discarded for the sake of a superb plot.
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