As I age and watch the world change around me with technological devices that no one ever thought about before, I wonder how many realize where many of the new ideas for these devices came from?. Ladies and Gentlemen, technological was not always what it is today, computers, cell phones, tablets, HDTV and medical equipment and machines that do almost anything someone wants done!. This all came from visionary people, people who dreamed of how to get things done quicker, better, and in a more reliable fashion.
Among these great minds we always talk about we have Franklin, Edison, Bell, and of course many forgien inventors also. We do tend to forget the visionaries who weren’t inventors but had the visions.For one the mind is a terrible thing to waste as someone said, and it is in the imagination of writers, producers, actors, and more that imagination becomes reality. Stop and think about it now, it is in the movies and films and books we find some of the basis for the technology we have today.
We all know Steve Jobs who died recently, brought us the ideas and motivation and innovations of today. The computers and tablets, and I-pods, I-pads and more. He was a walking genius.
But before Jobs and others who now rule the computer, cell phone and technological world were the visionaries who thought it all up. Gene Rodenberry, writer, producer, and genius in his own right. He had the vision that gave us handheld cell phones=communicators, talking computers, on the bridge of the Enterprise and other ships, hand-held medical scanners of different types and much more.Yes writers, producer, innovators, thinkers and more. Rodenberry thought up things in Star Trek books and movies that are now reality today and working their way into helping humanity survive and co-exist. Amazingly few think of Rodenberry this way, but stop and look back, when he brought Star Trek he brought all these things into the minds and visions of inventors and more. So it is the writers in many cases, who have the most vivid imaginations and abilities to flesh out the ideas on paper, in books and on the big screen and small screen too.
As we go further into the 22nd century, we have to look back at the mysteries, miracles, and fathom what could not be without those who came before us all. The visions of writers like Rodenberry is what made the world a better place today. What one could do with electronics and computers and chips and circuit boards was never a vision before writers like Rodenberry in the Sc-Fi world of books. So when we stop and think back on people like Franklin, Bell,Edison, the Wright Brothers and more, we best also think back on the great writers of the world and their abilities with words, thoughts and bringing it all to life in a book or magazine article or on the tv or movie screen. They produced many of the ideas that fuel the technological progress of the world today, and they are now dead and gone of course, but their contributions continue to affect every living being on the planet in one way or another. When someone tells you they are a writer, and they do a blog, stories, poems, scripts, and whatever genre they write, stop and think of the inner workings of a person with that talent to convey such imagination in such vivid color and perception that another can read it, and go, I can make it real and they do.The writers who put the emotions into characters or the feelings in a story, or poem or article, all are blessings few us truly understand, but should. God Bless the writers, the thinkers the technological wizards who take what writers produce and bring it all to life.
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