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WohsHows t1_j1w05xh wrote

Reply to comment by shoryurepppa in Science fiction writers are actually inventors born before their tech is possible by [deleted]

Nobody is going to say Da Vinci wasn't an inventor just because he didn't have working prototypes of his flying machines

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Denaton_ t1_j1w0uhj wrote

Da Vinci was not called an inventor for his failed blueprints, he was called an inventor for his successful once..

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WohsHows t1_j1w1yxr wrote

Definitely referred to as an inventor even for his blueprints.

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Denaton_ t1_j1w81x9 wrote

I think you misunderstood me, i said failed blueprints vs successful blueprints.

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cyan_violet t1_j1wcy5z wrote

This is because Da Vinci's intention (as far as we can tell) when drawing and diagramming those devices was to conceptualize an object in the context of reality, not fiction.

A sci-fi writer uses prose to describe, sometimes in technical detail, an object in a fictional universe, with an implicit understanding that it is not meant for fabrication, but for entertainment.

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TheLukeHines t1_j1wa3xd wrote

There’s a difference between drawing up complex schematics and imagining somethig. No offence to H. G. Wells but he didn’t invent a time machine because he wrote about a man who did.

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