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Originally Posted by issybird
Isn't that being needlessly provocative? Because, as has been discussed, science fiction is not science, nor is historical fiction, history.
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Yes, that's pretty much it. Waste of time to argue.
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Originally Posted by issybird
Because of Star Trek? 
I'll be silly in the same vein and mention Maxwell Smart's shoe phone. No, we don't have cell phones because of Get Smart, either, although it antedated Star Trek.
Sheesh, Jon, probability says that Sci Fi has to get some things right. It still doesn't make it science.
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Actually a mobile telephone appeared in
Sabrina (the version with Audrey Hepburn released in 1954). 
The main point is that because Science Fiction may occasionally contain real science Fiction does not become non-Fiction. Nor for history. Little Women is still fiction even if the Civil War really happened.