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re: Science Fiction Universes that got it right/wrong

Posted on 3/17/13 at 2:08 pm to
Posted by Tigris
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Member since Jul 2005
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Posted on 3/17/13 at 2:08 pm to
"Google Earth can be traced directly back to a small company named Autometric, ...

Autometric President Dan Gordon ...

Gordon was a huge fan of the ‘Earth’ program described in Neal Stephenson's sci-fi classic Snow Crash. Indeed, a Google Earth co-founder claimed that Google Earth was modeled after Snow Crash"

Clipped out of a Wiki article on Google Earth.
Posted by itawambadog
America, F Yeah!
Member since Nov 2007
21266 posts
Posted on 3/17/13 at 2:49 pm to
Weren't they using Ipads in Back to the Future II? The Cubs winning the World Series was way off though
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