Bakers Dozen

Science fiction gadgets from the past that exist today

  1. Heat Ray (from War of the Worlds) = The Active Denial System
  2. Telecom relay satellite, Arthur C. Clarke [cite not handy]
  3. Basically, the modern internet. Murray Leinster, “A Logic Named Joe”. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.the...gic_named_joe/
  4. Talking to the computer (Star Trek) = Alexa
  5. Communicators from TOS = flip phones

Science fiction gadgets from the past that exist today

  1. Heat Ray (from War of the Worlds) = The Active Denial System
  2. Telecom relay satellite, Arthur C. Clarke [cite not handy]
  3. Basically, the modern internet. Murray Leinster, “A Logic Named Joe”. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.the...gic_named_joe/
  4. Talking to the computer (Star Trek) = Alexa
  5. Communicators from TOS = flip phones
  6. Telepresence. Used for work and socializing by the scientifically advanced Mongols occupying America in “Armageddon 2419”, the inspiration for Buck Rogers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armageddon_2419_A.D.

Science fiction gadgets from the past that exist today

  1. Heat Ray (from War of the Worlds) = The Active Denial System
  2. Telecom relay satellite, Arthur C. Clarke [cite not handy]
  3. Basically, the modern internet. Murray Leinster, “A Logic Named Joe”. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.the...gic_named_joe/
  4. Talking to the computer (Star Trek) = Alexa
  5. Communicators from TOS = flip phones
  6. Telepresence. Used for work and socializing by the scientifically advanced Mongols occupying America in “Armageddon 2419”, the inspiration for Buck Rogers.
  7. Television “Parlor Walls” (Fahrenheit 451) = large flat screen web tv

Science fiction gadgets from the past that exist today

  1. Heat Ray (from War of the Worlds) = The Active Denial System
  2. Telecom relay satellite, Arthur C. Clarke [cite not handy]
  3. Basically, the modern internet. Murray Leinster, “A Logic Named Joe”. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.the...gic_named_joe/
  4. Talking to the computer (Star Trek) = Alexa
  5. Communicators from TOS = flip phones
  6. Telepresence. Used for work and socializing by the scientifically advanced Mongols occupying America in “Armageddon 2419”, the inspiration for Buck Rogers.
  7. Television “Parlor Walls” (Fahrenheit 451) = large flat screen web tv
  8. Small flying drones to spy on people (Danny Dunn, Invisible Boy)

Danny isn’t invisible, but he effectively can’t be detected as he spies on others with a small drone.

Science fiction gadgets from the past that exist today

  1. Heat Ray (from War of the Worlds) = The Active Denial System
  2. Telecom relay satellite, Arthur C. Clarke [cite not handy]
  3. Basically, the modern internet. Murray Leinster, “A Logic Named Joe”. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.the...gic_named_joe/
  4. Talking to the computer (Star Trek) = Alexa
  5. Communicators from TOS = flip phones
  6. Telepresence. Used for work and socializing by the scientifically advanced Mongols occupying America in “Armageddon 2419”, the inspiration for Buck Rogers.
  7. Television “Parlor Walls” (Fahrenheit 451) = large flat screen web tv
  8. Small flying drones to spy on people (Danny Dunn, Invisible Boy)
  9. Artificial hearts

Science fiction gadgets from the past that exist today

  1. Heat Ray (from War of the Worlds) = The Active Denial System
  2. Telecom relay satellite, Arthur C. Clarke [cite not handy]
  3. Basically, the modern internet. Murray Leinster, “A Logic Named Joe”. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.the...gic_named_joe/
  4. Talking to the computer (Star Trek) = Alexa
  5. Communicators from TOS = flip phones
  6. Telepresence. Used for work and socializing by the scientifically advanced Mongols occupying America in “Armageddon 2419”, the inspiration for Buck Rogers.
  7. Television “Parlor Walls” (Fahrenheit 451) = large flat screen web tv
  8. Small flying drones to spy on people (Danny Dunn, Invisible Boy)
  9. Artificial hearts
  10. Replicator from Star Trek = 3D printer. (Well, it’s a start.)

Science fiction gadgets from the past that exist today

  1. Heat Ray (from War of the Worlds) = The Active Denial System
  2. Telecom relay satellite, Arthur C. Clarke [cite not handy]
  3. Basically, the modern internet. Murray Leinster, “A Logic Named Joe”. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.the...gic_named_joe/
  4. Talking to the computer (Star Trek) = Alexa
  5. Communicators from TOS = flip phones
  6. Telepresence. Used for work and socializing by the scientifically advanced Mongols occupying America in “Armageddon 2419”, the inspiration for Buck Rogers.
  7. Television “Parlor Walls” (Fahrenheit 451) = large flat screen web tv
  8. Small flying drones to spy on people (Danny Dunn, Invisible Boy)
  9. Artificial hearts
  10. Replicator from Star Trek = 3D printer. (Well, it’s a start.)
  11. Mandarax – a hand-held computer database that’s a prototype for the iPad and Kindle. Kurt Vonnegut, Galapagos.

Science fiction gadgets from the past that exist today

  1. Heat Ray (from War of the Worlds) = The Active Denial System
  2. Telecom relay satellite, Arthur C. Clarke [cite not handy]
  3. Basically, the modern internet. Murray Leinster, “A Logic Named Joe”. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.the...gic_named_joe/
  4. Talking to the computer (Star Trek) = Alexa
  5. Communicators from TOS = flip phones
  6. Telepresence. Used for work and socializing by the scientifically advanced Mongols occupying America in “Armageddon 2419”, the inspiration for Buck Rogers.
  7. Television “Parlor Walls” (Fahrenheit 451) = large flat screen web tv
  8. Small flying drones to spy on people (Danny Dunn, Invisible Boy)
  9. Artificial hearts
  10. Replicator from Star Trek = 3D printer. (Well, it’s a start.)
  11. Earbuds to listen to music (they were “the little seashells” in Fahrenheit 451)

Science fiction gadgets from the past that exist today

  1. Heat Ray (from War of the Worlds) = The Active Denial System
  2. Telecom relay satellite, Arthur C. Clarke [cite not handy]
  3. Basically, the modern internet. Murray Leinster, “A Logic Named Joe”. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.the...gic_named_joe/
  4. Talking to the computer (Star Trek) = Alexa
  5. Communicators from TOS = flip phones
  6. Telepresence. Used for work and socializing by the scientifically advanced Mongols occupying America in “Armageddon 2419”, the inspiration for Buck Rogers.
  7. Television “Parlor Walls” (Fahrenheit 451) = large flat screen web tv
  8. Small flying drones to spy on people (Danny Dunn, Invisible Boy)
  9. Artificial hearts
  10. Replicator from Star Trek = 3D printer. (Well, it’s a start.)
  11. Earbuds to listen to music (they were “the little seashells” in Fahrenheit 451)
  12. Mandarax – a hand-held computer database that’s a prototype for the iPad and Kindle. Kurt Vonnegut,* Galapagos*.

Science fiction gadgets from the past that exist today

  1. Heat Ray (from War of the Worlds) = The Active Denial System
  2. Telecom relay satellite, Arthur C. Clarke [cite not handy]
  3. Basically, the modern internet. Murray Leinster, “A Logic Named Joe”. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.the...gic_named_joe/
  4. Talking to the computer (Star Trek) = Alexa
  5. Communicators from TOS = flip phones
  6. Telepresence. Used for work and socializing by the scientifically advanced Mongols occupying America in “Armageddon 2419”, the inspiration for Buck Rogers.
  7. Television “Parlor Walls” (Fahrenheit 451) = large flat screen web tv
  8. Small flying drones to spy on people (Danny Dunn, Invisible Boy)
  9. Artificial hearts
  10. Replicator from Star Trek = 3D printer. (Well, it’s a start.)
  11. Earbuds to listen to music (they were “the little seashells” in Fahrenheit 451)
  12. Mandarax – a hand-held computer database that’s a prototype for the iPad and Kindle. Kurt Vonnegut, Galapagos.
  13. 1984’s telescreens = today’s Skype.

Next up: Books that didn’t make it into the Bible.

  1. Paul’s Wit and Wisdom.

Next up: Books that didn’t make it into the Bible.

  1. Paul’s Wit and Wisdom.
  2. Zen and the Art of Carpentry

Books that didn’t make it into the Bible.

  1. Paul’s Wit and Wisdom.
  2. Zen and the Art of Carpentry
  3. Pontius Pilate, Boy Detective

Books that didn’t make it into the Bible.

  1. Paul’s Wit and Wisdom.
  2. Zen and the Art of Carpentry
  3. Pontius Pilate, Boy Detective
  4. The Shepherd of Hermas

Books that didn’t make it into the Bible.

  1. Paul’s Wit and Wisdom.
  2. Zen and the Art of Carpentry
  3. Pontius Pilate, Boy Detective
  4. The Shepherd of Hermas
  5. The 12 Disciples’s Guide to Sodom and Gamorra

Books that didn’t make it into the Bible.

  1. Paul’s Wit and Wisdom.
  2. Zen and the Art of Carpentry
  3. Pontius Pilate, Boy Detective
  4. The Shepherd of Hermas
  5. The 12 Disciples’s Guide to Sodom and Gamorra
  6. The Song of Shecky

Books that didn’t make it into the Bible.

  1. Paul’s Wit and Wisdom.
  2. Zen and the Art of Carpentry
  3. Pontius Pilate, Boy Detective
  4. The Shepherd of Hermas
  5. The 12 Disciples’s Guide to Sodom and Gamorra
  6. The Song of Shecky
  7. The Book of Armaments

Books that didn’t make it into the Bible.

  1. Paul’s Wit and Wisdom.
  2. Zen and the Art of Carpentry
  3. Pontius Pilate, Boy Detective
  4. The Shepherd of Hermas
  5. The 12 Disciples’s Guide to Sodom and Gamorra
  6. The Song of Shecky
  7. The Book of Armaments
  8. 50 Shades of Desert Brown

Books that didn’t make it into the Bible.

  1. Paul’s Wit and Wisdom.
  2. Zen and the Art of Carpentry
  3. Pontius Pilate, Boy Detective
  4. The Shepherd of Hermas
  5. The 12 Disciples’s Guide to Sodom and Gamorra
  6. The Song of Shecky
  7. The Book of Armaments
  8. 50 Shades of Desert Brown
  9. Noah’s pontoon

Books that didn’t make it into the Bible.

  1. Paul’s Wit and Wisdom.
  2. Zen and the Art of Carpentry
  3. Pontius Pilate, Boy Detective
  4. The Shepherd of Hermas
  5. The 12 Disciples’s Guide to Sodom and Gamorra
  6. The Song of Shecky
  7. The Book of Armaments
  8. 50 Shades of Desert Brown
  9. Noah’s pontoon
  10. Job’s suicide

Books that didn’t make it into the Bible.

  1. Paul’s Wit and Wisdom.
  2. Zen and the Art of Carpentry
  3. Pontius Pilate, Boy Detective
  4. The Shepherd of Hermas
  5. The 12 Disciples’s Guide to Sodom and Gamorra
  6. The Song of Shecky
  7. The Book of Armaments
  8. 50 Shades of Desert Brown
  9. Noah’s pontoon
  10. Job’s suicide
  11. Beowulf