20 Little Known Star Wars Facts
11. Imaginative Props
This funny little fact illustrates something about our society and its inventions:
The future is coming so fast that our everyday objects are beginning to look like products of the future.
The small gadgets in our pockets and purses need only slight embellishment to look alien, even to those who use them.
Most of us feel that we are already living in the future, and science fiction is only a slight exaggeration of current reality. Take one of our gadgets, decorate it a bit, and it fits right in on another planet.
How accurate will our predictions be? We can’t say, but the science fiction writers of yesterday scored pretty well. Today we ride in helicopters and submarines that would have been perfectly recognizable to Jules Verne. The concept of altering growth patterns by genetic engineering would have been understandable to H. G. Wells, who wrote of something similar in “The Food of the Gods.”
Will the real future be like “Star Wars?” Judging by the world around us, the answer is probably yes, in good ways and bad.
