People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions.

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories.

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive

See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.