The world is already influenced hugely by the fictional.
Take Spider Jerusalem's incontinence pistol. In ten years that might become a reality, created perhaps by a guy who doesn't even remember reading your comic. Maybe he just overheard a conversation about it a few years ago and it lodged itself into his subconcious.
Cloning, space stations, laser weapons, tanks. All written about decades if not centuries before they appeared in real life.
It makes you think, if something else had been written about instead - would that have come to pass too?
Norman Schwarzkopf, in a TV special on "the appeal of Star Wars" once said that we were four years and a few billion dollars away from having working lightsaber technology. Unf.
Take Spider Jerusalem's incontinence pistol. In ten years that might become a reality, created perhaps by a guy who doesn't even remember reading your comic. Maybe he just overheard a conversation about it a few years ago and it lodged itself into his subconcious.
Cloning, space stations, laser weapons, tanks. All written about decades if not centuries before they appeared in real life.
It makes you think, if something else had been written about instead - would that have come to pass too?
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