Arthur C. #Clarke once said that every #revolutionary idea passes through three phases, which can be characterized by the statements of its #critics:

1) “It’ll never work – it’s pure fantasy.”
2) “It might work, but it’s not worth doing.”
3) “I said it was a great idea all along"

https://space.nss.org/nss-position-paper-why-space

#SciFi #ScienceFiction #RocketScience

📆 ~1214-1294 “Ships will go without rowers and with only a single man to guide them. Carriages without horses will travel with incredible speed. Machines for flying can be made in which a man sits, and skillfully devised wings strike the air in the manner of a bird. Machines will raise infinitely great weights, and ingenious bridges will span rivers without supports.” https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/Roger-Bacon/273049

#SciFi #evolution

The modern #smartphone 📱 has more computing power than all of #NASA had in 📆 1969, or a smart doorbell 🔔 has the same computing power as the #Apollo #spacecraft https://www.space.com/space-exploration/apollo/you-can-now-wear-an-apollo-guidance-computer-keypad-as-a-wristwatch

Pictures : https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-of-internet-users | https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/yearly-number-of-objects-launched-into-outer-space?time=1989..latest

#SciFi #Tech #Evolution #Internet #MobilePhone #Spaceflight

You expect the first private* #Mars 🔴 landing within...📆❓

* uncrewed, commercial