Fiction comes to life
Via Making Light’s Particles comes this astonishing list: A Timeline of Science Fiction Inventions (I’d have called it Imaginations), from weightlessness in 1638 (Francis Godwin) to Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (in 2000 — Larry Niven, and under development even now). It’s damned amazing. Heinlein thought of a cellphone in 1953 in Assignment in Eternity. “How …