Reality Catching Up to Art

What was once imagined, now reality.

Hey folks,

Happy Friday to ya. What a week. Started on Monday with Jury Duty, and went down hill from there. {Smile}  But hey, It's FRIDAY!!! Time to check the Emails. You too can be part of the OPNTalk2 Blog. All you have to do is Email me at opntalk@gmail.com.

I am actually in  a great mood today. Busy day coming up. However, I'm in a great mood. Lets just have some fun today. I got this in the Emails a couple of days ago. I loved it. Lets talk about Imagination. Albert Einstein said..

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” 

He also said this....

“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.”

It is also said to be a fact, that if something can be imagined, it can be created. So our friends over at Cable TV  Providers.net  sent this in.. 8 Classic TV Shows That Prophesied Modern Day Technologies On May 7, 2012, in cable tv, by admin 

Every once in a while, life imitates art and fiction becomes reality. Outlandish plots of yesteryear suddenly seem prophetic in retrospect. We’re not suggesting that TV writers are ever going to be confused with Nostradamus, mind you, but for some classic TV shows, there is just that sort of prescient aura surrounding the scripts. Let’s take a look at some examples of TV fiction that became real-life technological fact:

1. Shazam! –
This live action adaptation of the comic book hero was also known as The Shazam!/Isis Hour for 5 seasons. In a show that preceded cell phones by a full decade, one character, Mentor, was known to make phone calls from a mobile unit in his RV, with help of a mobile operator.

1. Space:1999 –
The comlock device was a hand-held unit with a small television screen and camera which could provide computer access, open doors ans communicate as a mobile device. Sound familiar, anyone?

1. Knight Rider –
An anthropomorphic car with interactive menus, GPS capability and high-tech security features. What a concept. Nice to see that some very positive developments came from a TV show we thought was kinda cheesy and far-fetched at the time.

1. Star Trek –
Who could possibly miss the resemblance between those communicators and modern-day flip-phones? We think the Enterprise could have been sponsored by Motorola, and maybe could have even gotten a decent deal by signing up for their 5-year mission phone plan.

1. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea –
The concept of a vessel that can both fly and swim is not the stuff of fantasy any longer. The FS-1 flying sub on this series has a real-world counterpart, or at least DARPA has funding to build one.

1. Get Smart –
OK, so his shoe phone was rotary, but still, the fact that it was mobile and had the ability to ring at the worst possible times – just like in real life – tells us that someone was forward-thinking on that writing staff.

1. The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
– Remember those pens the spies could talk into on this show? How totally cool was that? Of course, there are spy shops and websites now where you can buy these things, with cameras to boot.

1. Lost in Space –
Robot technology has come a long way. Modern versions can be made to look and move like humans and without a lot of sarcastic backtalk. But the B9 robot was way ahead of its time as a defensive device, bomb diffuser, soil analyzer and all-around helpful domestic aid.

I want you to think about something. I mean really think about this. Think about the last one hundred years. A hundred years is nothing in time. There are still people walking the earth that are a hundred years old. Since day one, be it thousands of years, or tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, whatever your belief system is, we got around on horse, and used fire for light, cooking,  and heat. In just the last hundred years, we went from that, to laser beams and space travel. We went from letters to Emails. From going to talk to someone, to hand held communication devices, that double as computers. All this in the last hundred years. 

Now after you wrap your mind around this fact, I want you to think about this. Imagine, just imagine, what will the next hundred years bring us? Think about that..

Peter