10 best book ideas that we embody in real life

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Sometimes brilliant ideas are born not at all in scientific laboratories, but on the pages of books, moreover, not necessarily fantastic books. In our review, a submarine invented by Jules Verne, a successful brand from Pelevin's famous novel, and other book ideas that have been embodied in real life.

1. Company "Nikola" - "Generation P" Victor Pelevin

Victor Pelevin in his postmodern novel "Generation P" for the first time decided to oppose American Coca-Cola with the original Russian drink - kvass. After such a confrontation in the literature, the company "Nikola" appeared in reality. Its slogan sounded like "Kvass - not cola, drink to Nikolu" and was very much like the slogan invented by Pelevin for his work.

2. Interest Clubs - "Fight Club" Chuck Palahniuk

In 1996, an American writer Chuck Palahniuk released a novel called "Fight Club". The work tells about the institution of the same name, where people could throw out all their emotions in an honest fight. After the film adaptation of Palahniuk's book, similar clubs began to appear in many parts of the world, most of which were illegal. The writer's idea turned out to be so in demand that some of these establishments are still operating.

3. Methods of forensic science a la Holmes - "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" Arthur Conan Doyle

English writer Arthur Conan Doyle when writing a series of books about the great detective Sherlock Holmes described a large number of different methods of forensic science. Surprisingly, the guards at that time did not know about them. These include identifying typewriters, collecting cigarette ash and cigarette butts, and examining traces at a crime scene using a magnifying glass. Over time, they, as well as many other methods of the literary detective, began to be actively used by the police.

4. Fraudulent scheme - "Dead Souls" Nikolai Gogol

Russian writer Nikolai Gogol, in a poem entitled "Dead Souls", described an unusual scheme of fraud. In the work, the main character was engaged in the purchase of a product that existed only on paper and was absent in reality. Today, many unscrupulous citizens use such a criminal scheme, who place an order with a contractor and pay for the work. But the company itself does nothing at the same time, all the work turns out to be carried out only according to the documentation.

5. The idea of a superman - "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" by Friedrich Nietzsche

The famous philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche created a considerable number of works. In one of them, entitled "Thus Spoke Zarathustra," he voiced the idea that people are only an intermediate achievement of nature and its ultimate result should be supermen. The idea of this philosophical thought was picked up by Adolf Hitler, who believed that it was the Aryan race that was the highest among all other races of our planet.

6. Submarine - "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" Jules Verne

In 1869, ideas for the development of deep vessels were just beginning to emerge. Science fiction writer Jules Verne was the first to describe a submarine. We are talking about the famous "Nautilus" from the fantastic book "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", the name of which among submarines has become the most famous. The writer himself was nicknamed the "father of submarines" for the "creation" of Nautilus. Today, computers, electronic devices and spacecraft are named after his submarine, and this name is also used by sports clubs, music groups, restaurants and hotels.

7. Vending machines - "Ascetic Russia" Oleg Logvinov and Artem Senatorov

In 2012, the duet of Oleg Logvinov and Artem Senatorov released a satirical work called "Ascetic Russia". The book describes the original function of machines designed to replenish the account of mobile phones. After payment, everyone could play even-odd. The correct answer increases the deposited amount, the wrong one, accordingly, leads to the loss of everything. Because of such machines, pensioners, carried away, were deprived of their pensions, children spent the pocket money given to them. There are no such machines now only due to the restriction of the gambling business, but there was such an idea, it just did not have time to be translated into reality.

8. Scanning - "Noon, XXII century" brothers Boris and Arkady Strugatsky

Brothers Boris and Arkady Strugatsky in their fantastic utopia "Noon, XXII century" talked about a method that makes it possible to construct a mathematical model of the human brain by making a copy of it. In the book, this method is called the "Kasparo-Karpov" system. The story was published in 1962, when the chess player Karpov was only 11 years old, and his opponent Kasparov had not even been born yet.

9. The Atomic Bomb - "Freeing the World" by H. G. Wells

In Liberation of the World, English writer HG Wells first used the term “atomic bomb”. Interestingly, the work was released even before the First World War in 1913, when there was still no thought of such a weapon. The tests of the first atomic bomb were carried out only in 1945, and this is the end of the Second World War.

10. Headphones - "droplets" - "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury

Today, droplet headphones are very popular, but in the 1950s, headphones were completely different. Therefore, it is quite surprising that the heroine of the work "Fahrenheit 451" by the American writer Ray Bradbury used these particular headphones. The author called them "shells" and represented them in the form of small radios-bushings the size of a thimble, transmitting voices and music to the brain.

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