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When several examples of something are being listed in [[Speculative Fiction]], a couple of them will be from our time (or timeline if it's [[Alternate History]]), and the final one will be one from the future (or post-divergence [[Alternate History]]).
The most common variant is to list famous scientists, [[Isaac Newton|Newton]], [[Albert Einstein|Einstein]], Kepler, [[Dichter and Denker|Heisenberg]], [[Leonardo
Usually the trope serves only to remind us that it is, in fact, the future and people haven't stopped thinking and discovering things in between our time and story's setting. It would be odd if there hasn't been any new discoveries or geniuses worth mentioning, especially if the story involves something like [[Faster-Than-Light Travel]]. When someone or something we already know is used as such, then author is just making a point: say, if [[Stephen Hawking|Hawking]] is mentioned, that means people of the future in that verse think he is a genius equal to Newton and Einstein, meaning that readers also should.
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* In the [[Film of the Book]] ''[[A Sound of Thunder]]'', Ben Kingsley's character is [[Large Ham|hamming up]] a speech for the Time Safari tourists, with the last name a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Capricorn One]]''.
{{quote| '''Charles Hatton:''' Today you stood shoulder to shoulder with Columbus discovering America. Armstrong stepping on the moon, Brubaker landing on Mars.}}
* An example that may not even be found anymore, but when the ''[[Starship Troopers (
== [[Literature]] ==
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led us to this perfect day... }}
* ''[[Diaspora]]'' by [[Greg Egan]] is a story of exploration and discovery by our virtualised descendants. It has physicists front and centre. The real-world Planck and Wheeler are joined in 2055 by Renata Kozuch. Wheeler suggested the vacuum is made out of a maze of microscopic quantum wormholes. Kozuch takes this idea and tranforms it into the foundation of particles physics: all ''particles'' are wormhole mouths. This is a rare example where the future member of the trio explicitly builds on the work of the real-world pair.
* Used a few times in works by [[Arthur C. Clarke
** ''[[Rendezvous With Rama]]'', "Rama needed the grandeur of Bach or Beethoven or Sibelius or Tuan Sun, not the trivia of popular entertainment."
** ''[[The Fountains Of Paradise]]'': "Having first made his name with a new cosmological theory that had survived almost ten years before being refuted, Goldberg had been widely acclaimed as another Einstein or N'goya."
* In the third ''[[War Against the Chtorr]]'' book by David Gerrold, "The screams got louder, sounding like Auschwitz, Hiroshima or Show Low"
** Although, to be honest, the Show Low incident was discussed in detail in book one.
* There's a bit in a ''[[
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* From the ''[[
** ''[[Star Trek II:
{{quote| '''David:''' Well, don't have kittens. Genesis is going to work. They'll remember you in one breath with Newton, Einstein, Surak. }}
** Zefram Cochrane, inventor of the first warp drive, frequently gets name-dropped along with scientific pioneers and explorers from the 20th century and earlier.
** ''[[Star Trek:
{{quote| '''Garth:''' All the others before me have failed. Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, Hitler, Lee Kuan, Krotus! All of them are dust! But I will triumph! I will make the ultimate conquest! }}
** An inversion on ''[[
** The novels get in on this too. From the [[Star Trek Deep Space Nine Relaunch]]: "He had learned all he could about Earth's eminent explorers -- Leif Eriksson, Ferdinand Magellan, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, Neil Armstrong, [[Star Trek: Enterprise
** In ''[[Voyager]]'', the Doctor lists some of the greatest performers of ''[[La Boheme]]''. The first two pairs are real people, the other is a pair of Vulcans.
** In one episode of [[Star Trek:
** In another [[Star Trek:
** An episode of ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
** Also from ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
** In the ''[[Star Trek:
* In the ''[[Babylon 5]]'' episode "Infection", it's mentioned that Dr Franklin aspires to become one of the great names of medicine, alongside Fleming, Salk, Jenner, and Takahashi.
** In the third-season episode "And the Rock Cried Out, No Hiding Place":
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== [[New Media]] ==
* * This is #5 of ''[[Cracked
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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