Anticipation

See also: Anticipation (homonymy)

To the general direction of the term, a anticipation corresponds to a phase where ideas are developed which will not appear effective - in the form of a Technologie, a Political regime, etc - that “later”, in general of the years even of tens of years after the initial intuition.

Anticipation and science fiction

Anticipation corresponds to a literary and cinematographic Genre related to the Science-fiction, gathering works whose action proceeds in a near future or hypothetical. The kind abounds in the representations related to human society prophesied by the authors like as much of Utopie S or Dystopie S which can release or control Humanity. Year 2440, dream if it were never of Louis-Sebastien Mercier, published in (1771), illustrates this tendency perfectly: it is about a Science fiction novel , in which the author imagines how will be the world later some six hundred and seventy years, in Paris released by a peaceful and happy revolution of oppression and where reign the reason, the lights, the justice of the Lumières. Nevertheless, “anticipation” is not a synonym of science fiction. Several works of science fiction cannot be classified in the category “anticipation”. For example, E.T extraterrestrial the of Steven Spielberg is a science fiction film, because it puts in scene a character of extraterrestrial, but it is not a film of anticipation, because nothing indicates that the action proceeds in the future.

Anticipation and science

The Histoire of sciences was marked by several more or less clear anticipations. Although rare, some are famous, in particular the sights heliocentric of Aristarque de Samos at the 3rd front century J. - C., is eighteen centuries before Copernic. However, Thomas Kuhn and others Historiens of sciences warned against the Anachronisme S scientists. If anticipations in science are what they are, of the given up theories, it is that to the moment when these sights were developed, they did not bring anything compared to the model which prevailed. Thus, in the case of Aristarque, the base of the Géocentrisme was such as its revolutionary ideas could cause only indifference.

See too

  • Prolepse
  • List of films, telefilms and series of science fiction

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