Sean McGowan humorously riffs on imaginary predictions from science-fiction writers that never came to be.
1. Nuclear-Powered Soap Dispenser While many sci-fi authors envisioned the possibilities of nuclear power, Philip K. Dick’s “The Land That Time Remembered” got specifically stuck on the idea of a society where humans washed their hands with “soap dispensers powered by the almighty atom,” and where “torrents of soap spurted forth by means of the forces that birthed the universe.” 2.
Something Ray Bradbury Kept Calling a “Turbo Fridge” Regarded as one of the greatest science-fiction writers of all time, Ray Bradbury was known for his poetic prose, trenchant political commentary, and deep understanding of the human condition. So it’s baffling that he repeatedly referred to a vague piece of future-tech he described only as the “Turbo Fridge” several hundred times in his beloved “Neptunia” series.
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