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Imaginators, not inventors.

Inventing includes all the technical aspects and goes from the idea to a functional prototype.

A lot of science fiction writers do go into technical detail for their books. Which would be a huge reason why real inventors later down the line credit science fiction works/writers as their inspiration.

Also, imaginator sounds dumb AF.

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Probably why the last Skylanders game was called Imaginators...because the series was being dumbed down.

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But anyone can come up with an idea for something, the inventor actually invents it.

Ideas are cheap man.

I remember when Twitter started, someone said that their novel idea was just to limit the number of characters. But there is so much that goes behind the scenes to support the massive traffic that goes through the twitter network.

Fiction writers are wishful thinkers. Like the guy who wrote the movie ‘Her’ such a brilliant rendition of AI supplementing for romantic needs of humans. Looks straightforward on paper, but it’s gonna take a minute to get there.

As someone who makes a majority of their income being a consultant for people and companies I'd say ideas aren't cheap at all.

Especially since most people (not all) need some type of guidance or starting point to even spark any of their own original ideas.

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

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

Definitely referred to as an inventor even for his blueprints.

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

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.

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.

No they're not. That's not how inventing works. That's just how ideas and imagination works.

LOL. This isn't even remotely accurate. Please have some respect for actual inventors.

What a big LOL you have

Yeah they're "imaginators" obviously

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Making shit up and actually creating something of value are two different skill sets.

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