8th+grade+-+Golden+Age+of+SF+-+Technology+(5th+block)

King_Kong_Jordan: Technology is what got science fiction started. During the Golden Age, the stories were written about how technology would be in the future and how it would it would effect the human race. These stories focused on physics and astronomy. The most popular stories are about how robots are going to take over the world and destroy the human race. One of the best robot writers was Isaac Asimov who wrote things like I, Robot and The Robots of Dawn. When the first robot was invented, some people thought that the world would soon come to an end. Nowadays sci fi writers focus on sociology, psychology, and politics and they are running out of ideas. It’s either because that the ideas are taken or that they are easily contradicted. Technology has increased to the point that where if a writer writes an idea, that idea is not that far away from being a real thing or people get mad because it is so silly. Many writers write about current technology but in times of the past. This ables the writer to write about what past cultures would’ve done if they had are technology. This subject poses a lot of questions to the public and the subject will never die out.

http://www.testermanscifi.org/GoldenCore.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Science_Fiction