 One classic example of this is in the Disney film "The Absent-Minded Professor" made in 1963 and based on the short story "A Situation of Gravity," by Samuel W. Taylor.Two examples of this character portrayed in more modern media include doctor Emmett Brown from "Back to the Future" and Professor Farnsworth of "Futurama".In literature, "The Absent-Minded Beggar" is a poem by Rudyard Kipling, written in 1899, and was directed at the absent–mindedness of the population of Great Britain in ignoring the plight of their troops in the Boer War.