Class 2 Question Set and Vocabulary

Class 2 Question Set and Vocabulary

1. What are the three reasons the author gives to support why science fiction is important?

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2. Michio Kaku states, " physics and understanding the future are really the same thing..." what does he mean by this?

3. Why did Martin Luther Ling Jr. ask Michelle Nichols to remain on the television show Star Trek?

4. What does Isaac Asimov mean when he states,

" No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be..."

5. What is one thing the author lists as something that was once only science fiction but has since become a reality?

Vocabulary/Expressions

·      beyond the horizon

·      foundations

·      to work towards something

·      developing technologies

·      simulated realities

·      content of their character

·      trivial

·      blind