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The Gadgets of Yesterday's Science Fiction Inspiring tomorrow's Technology

Introduction

Science and technology have helped the world to set up companies to transform modern and traditional ways of conducting business. Scientific advances in technology have also dramatically changed the relationship of man with nature and the interaction between living things. Today science and technology permeate the highest levels in society today.

The last century started with a population of 1,625 million people to be very prolific in terms of technological advances, it is estimated that the growth in information technology was exponential, i.e., it had a growth so high that its magnitude doubled every time a child over time, similar to the growth of bacteria that cause us disease as the cause of pneumonia, or the memory of microprocessors that are implemented on computers.

Discussion

Among the books, series and science fiction movies have always cast gadgets, technologies and devices, although at the time seemed futuristic and impossible has been made into reality. Currently, we have some of the gadgets that have ended up becoming impossible in reality, but scientists and manufacturers have made it possible. Some of these gadgets are discussed below that reflect the gadgets of yesterday's science fiction inspiring tomorrow's technology:

The story, in the book Neuromancer, begins with the Chatsubo Case, the bar of his friend Ratz. Case is a hacker in cyberspace who tried to steal money from their bosses in punishment was injected with a drug that inhibits their ability to connect to the matrix. Case willingly agrees to negotiate, while Molly holds the dart gun and the 10 blades that come out under the nails. It indicates the role of technology in people's life that how negatively technology is being used for the purpose of hacking (Gibson, p. 125-139)

From Jules Verne to the Videoconference

On the issue of the predictions of science fiction, few have been successful as far as Jules Verne. In 1891, Jules Verne described the fonotelefoto, a device that would allow for video calls. Although Verne predicted the arrival of the video call by the year 2889, now long since we see each other as we speak by phone or Internet in real time. Further, Skype takes video call quality allowing us to make the Internet a long time, and recently the mobile applications have been receiving updates that allow them to use the camera for Skype to Skype calls. Also, Google allows videoconferencing via the plug-in Google Talk that is incorporated in Gmail. Moreover, since the advent of GPRS and 3G video calls can even be done from the mobile phone itself, but of course, it is cheap to use an alternative solution (Feshuk 2008: 59).

From Dick Tracy to Wrist

Radio-Watch Dick Tracy

In 1952, Dick Tracy appeared to speak through his wristwatch. Even back then the closest distance to telecommunications was the radio (and radio that they called two-way wrist) today it is easiest to enter the mobile phone to a wristwatch. In 2009, Blackberry has already released a mobile phone built into a wristwatch, ...