Will science fiction writers become tomorrow's historians?
5 min readJul 25, 2023
Technology plays a dominant role in our society. The Romans conquered the world thanks to their military technology. The pilum, the Roman legionnaire's standard spear, was designed to penetrate thick plate armour. Once thrown, successfully or not, the spear was rendered useless.
That was in the early days. Later, during the industrial revolution, technology played an even more dominant…