One section of my edited collection "Technology: A Reader for Writers" (Oxford, 2014) is comprised of readings exploring issues related to the question "Does Science Fiction Inform Our Technological Reality?" A list of the readings in that section can be accessed here: https://global.oup.com/ushe/product/technology-9780199340736?cc=us&lang=en& . Kathryn Cramer's "On Science and Science Fiction" (1995) is a must read; a copy of this essay and Gregory Benford's "Real Science, Imaginary Worlds” are both available in Cramer's edited collection of hard sf "The Ascent of Wonder," which you can access here: https://archive.org/details/ascentofwonderev00davi/page/n13/mode/2up All best, Johannah On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 3:29 PM Andrew Russell <arussell@arussell.org> wrote:
Hi again SIGCIS - please see below, forwarded with permission via Peggy Kidwell -
*From:* Baker, Alexi <alexi.baker@yale.edu> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 13, 2021 2:14 PM *To:* rete@maillist.ox.ac.uk <rete@maillist.ox.ac.uk> *Subject:* [rete] History of telecommunications / mobile phones
This is perhaps going a bit far afield in the history of technology, but I have a student who is interested in the history of mobile phones with respect to science fiction. She is in particular interested in how the development of such telecommunications influenced, was represented in, and was influenced by science fiction films. Do any of you happen to know of historians who have focused on the development of mobile phones and/or on the relationship between sci fi and technology in general?
Many thanks for any suggestions - Alexi
Dr. Alexi Baker Division of the History of Science & Technology Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History Tel. 203-737-3084 alexi.baker@yale.edu
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