Welcome to the unit. Science fiction becomes a reality with the development of science and technology. Watch the video and finish the following exercises. The great science fiction author jules vern said, anything one man can imagine other man can make real if we compare what is described in science fiction with what is happening in real life, we can easily understand what jewels burn means. In popular science fiction novels such as jewels burns, twenty thousand leagues under the sea, we find perfect examples of the connection between science fiction and reality. Published in eighteen seventy, this novel describes a huge electronic submarine travelling deep under the ocean. IT seemed impossible to people at that time. Yet today, submarines are capable of taking people to the deepest st known part of the ocean. Traveling to the moon was all also fought to be impossible. When two thousand one a space, otto sy by author sea Clark came out in nineteen sixty eight, mankind had not yet set foot on the moon. His novel got people to imagine the future and offered a look at man flights to the moon in nineteen sixty nine. The united states of policy eleven became the first man spacecraft to land on the moon. Of course, there are still many scenes in science fiction that seem wild and impossible to us today. In science fiction films like the matrix, humans connect their brains with computers and enter a virtual world that is distinguishable from the real world. With the most recent development in brain computer interface technology, scientists have managed to connect animal brains to a computer. IT means we are one step closer to turning the imagine scenes in the matrix into reality. What the future will be like is anybody's guess yet. One thing is for sure, the development of science and technology opens up endless possibilities for life in the future. Remember, anything one man can imagine, other man can make real.