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EARTHDATE: April 26, 2009

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ON THE WEB: WORDS THAT MOVED FROM SCIENCE FICTION TO SCIENCE

by Hazed

Who came up with the word "robotics"? You'd think it would be the people who first worked on robots, but actually, it was science fiction writer Isaac Asimov. Or what about "virus", when referring to malicious computer software that passes itself on? That was a science fiction writer too, David Gerrold.

Here's a blog entry that lists nine words or phrases that are now used in science, but were actually first coined in science fiction.

It's fascinating to see how concepts first imagined in SF came true. I wonder what things that are now impossible will, in the future, become commonplace - and take their names from science fiction...

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