Bit of a play on words there as there is also a famous baseball player named Bob Shaw in addition to the famous Science Fiction writer.<\/p>\n
SF writers have their hits and their misses when it comes to predicting the future \u2013 and technology \u2013 and some are more successful than others; some are wonderfully unsuccessful. <\/p>\n
We don\u2019t have jet packs yet so Bob Shaw can\u2019t point to Vertigo<\/a> and say I told you so (I know he has passed on but I\u2019m sure he\u2019s somewhere, drinking Guinness and pointing) but this<\/a>, about scientists working on real slow glass<\/a>, kindly forwarded to me by Bill Burns<\/a>, shows that the \u2018boffins\u2019 are catching up with some of our finest Science Fiction writers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bit of a play on words there as there is also a famous baseball player named Bob Shaw in addition to the famous Science Fiction writer. SF writers have their hits and their misses when it comes to predicting the future \u2013 and technology \u2013 and some are more successful than others; some are wonderfully […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7WoTV-2m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowdevil.com\/jp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}