Sci-fi technology that became REALITY || Futurism in sci-fi (part 1)
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- Опубліковано 27 лип 2024
- In the first video on this two-part series, I look into the technology predicted in science fiction novels that came true. #sciencefiction #futurism #technology
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Contents:
0:00 - Intro
02:02 - The Internet
04:09 - Virtual Reality
06:22 - Communication Technologies
10:31 - Personal Devices
15:22 - Weaponry
20:25 - Solar Energy
22:02 - Transport
Part 2 - Society predictions science fiction got RIGHT || Futurism in sci-fi (part 2) • Sci-fi predictions tha...
Sources
www.micron.com/insight/future....
arxiv.org/pdf/1803.08395.pdf
www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-c...
www.hodinkee.com/articles/fou...
www.tor.com/2010/08/17/robert...
www.advancedsciencenews.com/s...
eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/20...
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MY STUFF
linktr.ee/bookodyssey
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MY SCI-FI NOVELS
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DELPHINE DESCENDS
After her family is killed and her homeworld occupied, young Kathreen Martin is sent to the distant world of Furoris for re-education. She will live the rest of her life as a serf - to be bought and sold as a commodity of the Imperial Network.
When her only chance of escape is ruined, a chance mistaken identity offers her a new life as the orphaned daughter of a First-Citizen Senator and heiress to a vast fortune.
She vows to claw her way into power to sit among the worlds’ elite. Then, with her own hands, she will reap bloody vengeance on them all.
But to beat them, she must play their game. And she must play it better than them all.
BLACK MILK
Prometheus has the chance to bring his wife back from the dead, but doing so will mean the destruction of Earth.
Spanning time, planets and dimensions, Black Milk draws to a climactic point in a post-apocalyptic future, where humanity, stranded with no planet to call home, fights to survive against a post-human digital entity that pursues them through the depths of space.
Five lives separated by aeons are inextricably linked by Prometheus’s actions:
Ystil.3 is an AI unit sent back in time from the distant future to investigate Prometheus’s discovery...
The mysterious Lydia has devoted her life to finding a planet that the last remaining humans can call home…
Tom Jones (he’s a HUGE fan!) is an AI trapped inside a digital subspace, lost and desperate to find his way back to his beloved in real-time…
Dr Norma Stanwyck is a neuroscientist from 24th Century Earth whose personal choices ripple throughout time...
Prometheus must learn the necessity of death or the entire universe will be swallowed by his grief.
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GOODREADS
You can stalk me on Goodreads to see what I'm currently reading. bit.ly/3rrcByD
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IMAGE USE
The images in my videos are mostly licensed stock photos. However, occasionally I will use images found online. I always seek to properly credit artists and offer a link back to their amazing work but sometimes it's hard to find the original source of the work. If I've used an image you own and I haven't credited you, please feel free to get in touch as I am always more than happy to do so. - Розваги
In Clarke's "The Songs of Distant Earth" (1986), I remember a statement about a character that, aproximately, said "as any other man of his time, he would rather step out of his home naked than without his personal comunication device". Does that sound familiar to anyone? ;-)
Ebooks were very accurately described (named optron) by Stanisław Lem in his 1961 novel “Return from Stars”. He had lot of quite accurate predictions in his writings.
Interesting 🤔
Regarding weapons, I can also recommend "Peace On Earth" by Lem
@@Sci-FiOdyssey “I spent the afternoon in a bookstore. There were no books in it. None had been printed for nearly half a century. And how I have looked forward to them, after the micro films that made up the library of the Prometheus! No such luck. No longer was it possible to browse among shelves, to weigh volumes in hand, to feel their heft, the promise of ponderous reading. The bookstore resembled, instead, an electronic laboratory. The books were crystals with recorded contents. They can be read the aid of an opton, which was similar to a book but had only one page between the covers. At a touch, successive pages of the text appeared on it. But optons were little used, the sales-robot told me. The public preferred lectons - like lectons read out loud, they could be set to any voice, tempo, and modulation.”
― Stanisław Lem, Return From the Stars
Nice video! I never knew the origin of the TASER acronym. The serial number of Gernsback's protagonist is a number pun of the phrase 'One to foresee for one.'
Great episode, Darrel. Don’t forget Paul used a tablet in preparation for moving to Arrakis. Also I remember Greg Bear had them too.
Thank you, Darrel, for all these! ❤ ❤ ❤
Very pertinent to your topic is a short story by E. M. Forster (yes, not a noted sci-fi writer!) published in 1909 called "The Machine Stops" that, among other things, predicted UA-cam and video conferencing.
Very nice video...you really got it covered. Only thing I can think of to add is the idea for computer malware from John Brunner's " Shockwave Rider" ( 1975 )
Thanks I’ll check that out!
Good job man 💪
Please make more videos!!!
You are very smart person and i really enjoying watching your content.
Please make MORE VIDEOS!!!
Ray Bradbury predicted the both the wired home in There Will Come Soft Rains and immersive virtual reality in The Veldt.
2:30 The beginning was laid not only in the USA. Many people have come up with similar ideas. In the USSR, ideas began to hatch in the 50s, and implementation began in the 60s. The first such system was called the National Automated System OGAS (NAS). Of course, at first it was a primitive exchange of information between factories, because it was necessary to link them all into a planned economy.
For those interested Arthur C Clarke wrote Profiles of the Future, a book full of his predictions but sadly long out of print.
Robert Heinlein predicated remote manipulators called Waldos.
Acceptable performance for a meat monkey.
On a serious note, thanks for another great video! Cannot wait for part 2.
It's fascinating to find description of a modern day technology in some decades or even centuries old book. Some ideas could've been somewhat easily extrapolated from technologies of that time, but communication was slow, and these ideas probably didn't influence scientific progress that much. But now there's a lot of enthusiasts trying so hard to bring into the world their favourite item from science fiction, like FTL drives, hoverboards, blasters, lightsabers, you name it. What a time to be alive!
And I'm convinced that Evil Queen's Mirror is just Alexa Smart Mirror.
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fyi he's an ape, not a monkey 🐒
@@Sci-FiOdyssey, sorry to ask a question that probably a lot of people asked before, but how come you don't have any book reviews to A Song of Ice and Fire?
In one video you mentioned you're waiting for The Winds of Winter, so I presume you like it. Would be interesting to know your thoughts on the series.
And if you already answered that question somewhere in the comments, you can just direct me to the video.
You are doing an amazing job !! Keep it up man! Greetings from Chile 🌶!
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I love this "what if" focus of sci-fi. Dreams slowly taking form.
I once read a book from the 1970s and they already had there cars.
Excelent
One of the best videos on the channel!
At least in my opinion.
Thank you! Nice of you to say… it’s one of my favs too
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Yeah, I've worked on quite a few scripts for YT videos in my time and I can thus see how much research, thought and effort must have gone into this 'double-parter' of yours. Definitely appreciate it.
In Heinlein's "The Door into Summer" there are many more predictions, including the Hitech culture, CAD software, synthetic meat & many more. Maybe his most prophetic & accurate.
Nice channel. Subbed. 🙂👍
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I recommend "Summa Technologiae" by Lem, that is his famous futurology work.
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The Ancient Greek words, kubernetes and kubernao (Homer), meaning helmsman or controller evolved in English into gubernatorial, govern, government; and kuberrnetika (Plato) meaning steering, evolved into cyber and cybernetics in the words of mathematician Norbert Weiner to describe systems of control in machines and animals.
In modern times, the word Kubernetes is the name given to a computer program whose job it is to manage and orchestrate a type of cloud/network application deployment system called containers, which allow an organisation to manage applications across a large number of computers.
Great vid as usual! I LOVE your sense of humor (as well as your deep knowledge of scifi)
Thanks. Sometimes I’m not sure how well it translates 😅
@@Sci-FiOdyssey it’s witty and sweet, worry not!
Hey I download your vids for my drive home so your voice can chill me out after dealing with kids all day before I get home to the kids, and I was wondering, does downloading vids give you a boost algorithmically? from what I understand its only for paid up youtubees in most countries but we get it in the basic here. So maybe me downloading it gives you 2 algorithm points. Maybe my vote is worth more than a basic youtubee in another country. I just read this back and I think I should probably get a taxi home.
I never knew that the word Taser actually stood for something. Very interesting.
Great video !
Great video! Thank you
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Hi Darrel across the world! 💕
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