What present day technology is most likely a forerunner to the science fiction robot?

a. the nuclear reactor
b. the printing press
c. the military drone
d. he x-ray

C. the military drone .

Explanation:

Science fiction is a literary genre that explores potential consequences of a particular form of technology, invention, or discovery in a dystopian or utopian setting.  

The figure of the robot, in fact, is such a product of both historical (the figure of the automaton) and literary manifestations (like in Asimov´s literature). As such, the military drone, with its capacity to be active, in relative terms, independently of human control, could be a forerunner to a specific science fiction robot that could very well become a reality one day.  

the correct answer option for this is: false.

explanation:

we are given the following statement 'hawthorne thought of himself as a novelist' which is false.

the truth is that nathaniel hawthorne thought of himself as a romancer, rather than a novelist.

though it is ironic of him of him to consider himself a romancer rather than a novelist despite of the innocent women killings in the salem witch trials which occurred in colonial massachusetts between 1692 and 1693 .