Clas Svahn
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the tech we would see would be at the bleeding edge of what we could even create.
So it is in some ways.
Yeah.
So in some ways you are snapping it to a grid and you have this meme in your head and you're superimposing it on what you understand.
But in other ways, it's actually like leading technology itself.
Like airships were just starting to be a thing, but they weren't really a thing in the 1890s.
So maybe they're inspiring technological innovation.
And you can say the same about the sci-fi writers, you know.
Yes.
They have been leading many of the guys who got us to the moon.
Yes.
They read the sci-fi first.
Oh, yeah.
And they were inspired by that and thought, wow, this could be done.
Yes.
So you need that element to be able to take the next step.
You absolutely do.
And I think, yeah, you need the mythological element almost always supersedes the actual doing of the thing.
But I think we've...
lost that for at least a little period after World War II, maybe an hour.