I actually thought about this several years ago. I found it funny how sci-fi works would often influence inventors and scientists to actually see if it could be done. They both need each other for it to happen: the creativity of the science fiction with the know-how of actual science.
There is also science fiction being self-fulfilling prophecies. Innovators might get inspiration from science fiction and create those science fiction technologies.
3:48 Also, either Joules Verns or H G Wells for-told the flat screen TV (or monitor) in one of his books written in the cowboy days. lol In what appeared to be a contemporary old drawing, it depicted about six, 3 ft flat thin TY screens set up in an office. But set in the isles on tall spindly stands (like projector screen stands)... not on the desks. Oh but so, so close. lol
It can be more like fiction inspiring future inventions. Like how Futurama inspired Hyperloop and how the Jetsons inspired countless inventions that are standard today.
+Marly Tati I have to agree. I think that good sci-fi predicts what can be possible and it is these works that inspires people to make them happen. It is the young sci-fi reader that is filled with all these wonderful possibilities and then grows up with the want to make them real. But also a good sci-fi author can predict the trends they see and project them into a plausible future. While they might not unfold as written then can often be close enough.
+Saice Exactly... Without inspiration there is no future. This is the reason why in the past many wars were fought and it took so long for humanity to advance in technology because people were not given the freedom to think. If it was not for inspiration we would be stuck in time, driving and producing the same vehicles year after year or people would keep dying from the same disease because no new cures were being made. People get inspired for different reasons and create their own future, some are so significant that affect all of us. Take for example the doctor whose mother died of cancer and from that tragedy got inspired to work 50 years non stop on a cure that he finally found several years later. For me prediction is when you have some sort of data and you calculate and make a prediction about the possible outcome, but for me the future is unpredictable.
I would just like to use this opportunity to remind you that our Back to the Future hoverboards are already several months late already. Chop chop inventors!
+Saskia H. isn't it already slowly becoming reality? Maybe not as bad as in "1984", but society steers in that direction if we don't do something about it.
TheAnakinn I actually think we're on the road of improvement. Human rights have improved the last 100 years and now are coming near to a goal point in the developed countries and we're trying to make the other countries join us too. But a book like 1984 should still be read by everyone, to show what *could* be and actually is by a small degree. Do you think so too?
Saskia H. This requires a more complex reply, so I'll split it up in two parts. 1. Human rights I agree, human rights have improved over the last 100 years, but there's two things about that I've got problems with. The human rights were a code set up by the United Nations in 1948 at the onset of the cold war and were heavily influenced by the so called western world (which I'm a citizen of myself), so these rights are very one sided. The second thing is, you said we're trying to make other countries join us. But by what means and actions? War and destruction leading to the rise of extremist factions? And when the economy demands it, we treat with countries who don't give a shit about human rights (i.e. Saudi Arabia or China) 2. 1984/Mass surveillance 100 years ago, the governments, or respectively their intelligence agencies, didn't have the tools of mass surveillance they have nowadays. Agencies like the NSA or the BND (German intelligence agency) don't only spy on "enemies" or non-allied states, but also on their allies AND their own populace. To which extent is yet unknown, because they always argue with "matters of highest state security, that threaten the state if revealed". So do you really think we've improved and are on the right way? Or rather drifting towards Orwell's dystopia? Sorry for the rambling :P
+Saskia H. Well beside the equal rights for all race and sex, many goes backward. In Europe, now, in many communities the government turns away / [retedn not to see when the local communties practice Sharia law. Big step backward. A little more than 100 years the USA had no income tax. Now we are on the road to have the French type (Gestapo style)IRS implemented where the agents have their own power to issue search warrants it goes for other alphabet agencies as well. As The Anakinn mentioned the drones, phone, computer and other surveillance also far from improvements. I type 4 keywords in this wonderful search engine and my text being automatically reported to another alphabet agencies to analyze. The mainstream media took over the news and instead of presenting it, creating it in order to serve a propaganda machine. People read Internet articles , that is mostly propaganda instead of books. The population is often brainwashed enough to vote for leaders who start wars with countries with names neither them nor the leaders can correctly pronounce like Iraq or Iran. I could write pages and pages with examples how today;s college graduate is not an inch higher than an illiterate common person from 300 years ago, with not even half of the survival abilities and a complete dependency on consumption. Improvement? Really?
Jon Snow Slow down there for a minute. First of all, comparing the IRS to the Gestapo is a no go, just no. The Gestapo was an intelligence service that neglected any human right whatsoever and simply let people disappear, tortured and murdered people, whereas the IRS is a tax agency, so not in the least comparable! Secondly, Sharia law in Europe and government turning away from that? Don't know which case exactly you're refering to, but yes, there have been so called "honor murders" and what not, but those are single cases and they are dealt with, not ignored! As a third point, yes, we might not be able to survive on ourselves anymore, but that is a side effect of the evolution of our society and not necessarily a bad one. This way we are way more productive and innovative as a whole. Way better than 95% of the population just struggeling to survive don't you think? 1-2% of our population produce all the food we consume (which, to be fair, we consume too much of) leaving 98-99% to concentrate their efforts elswhere, be it scientific, cultural or artistic. I'm more inclined, however, to agree with the media being used as a propaganda tool or at least in channeling the public opinion. From your examples I take it you live in the US and that is really the worst media I have seen in a western country so far. But even here in Germany I get the feeling the press is not as independent anymore as they once were, a few exceptions aside maybe. Internet or computers/tablets/smartphones in general of course is the biggest source of intelligence for these kind of services. Honestly, who still reads terms and conditions? Anything could be said in there, even legalizing surveillance.
I enjoy watched TED-ed, is really good for my because I am practicing English. the topic in this video is nice. I would want watch the video about the dreams or prophetic dreams and why do we dream in color or black and white.
I think that it both inspires and predicts. Would we be thinking about a space elevator if it hadn't been proposed in sci fi? Here is an interesting article on this. writerdreams.freeforums.net/thread/36/predictive-power-sci-fi
Sometimes that works the other way around. Look at how many people now think the moon landings were faked. In a hundred years, will kids be telling each other that slavery never happened?
+Aryan Zagros Hey man, just letting you know that I featured your comment in one of my videos called "talk religion and pooping with me" .. Hope you don't mind, it was perfect for it!
'Science Fiction predicts the future'. But I'm wondering if it's not sometimes the opposite, Science Fiction showing a possible future to the mass, a new 'realm of possibilities' and industrialists getting inspired by the reaction and trying to mold science fiction to a future reality with their products.
That part about taking someone form the past and showing them the technology today makes me think of that line in outlast, where someone say "If you show a cave man technology they will think it's magic, but if you show a modern man magic they will think it's technology". :3
+eh dollet A good portion of these 'modern' men/women think God did it all through magic. Oh, they might know how a light bulb works now but to them, something as complex as life obviously can't happen without the intervention of the Creator.
0:31 - 0:49 Was the RAND corporation working on such projects at the time they made those predictions? Wouldn't that be a self-fulfilling prophecy? RAND "Hey DARPA, what are you all working on and what is your estimated timeline development on those projects? We need to make some predictions here." It is interesting to see how science fiction drives research and development of technologies.
But, isn't it more likely that futurists and science fiction authors only facilitate the creation of the useful things they think up, by presenting them to the world in the first place? I'm pretty sure that without Star Treck there would likely be no cell phones in our time.
Nelly Bly made it around the world in 72 days which was less time than what Jules Verne had written in Around the world in 80 days, and visited him and his wife in France on the Journey.
We should not overlook that most trend watchers assisting the government are from think tanks sponsored by big businesses with their own interests, in short overlooking real issues (global warming, plastic in the ocean, antibiotics in food chain, etc) for economic opportunities.
Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy depicts the creation and aplication of a new science called psycohistory. It is used to calculate de galaxy empire decline and the 1000 years after to the second empire.
In many cases science fiction hasn't so much predicted the future as created it. We copy their ideas & make them real, and they might not have happened otherwise
If you get thousands of ideas about the future, then some of them are going to be somehow similar to what we get. And just because that "news pad" is similar to modern tablets doesn't make it a good prediction. There are many details that make a tablet a tablet. None of which were predicted.
Take 2001 alone. Clarke predicted the table pc. But he also predicted a hard artificial intelligence and a spacestation and stuff. If you make 1000000 predictions and 100 become true, then it wasnt really a big surprise - especially when you only can tell a good prediction from a bad one AFTER it has been fulfilled or not. So science fiction can not help predict the future. It only can make wild guesses.
If humans were capable of processing all of the laws of time and space within a reasonable length of time, then we could not predict the future, but know what lies ahead with a 100% guarantee. Then again, one might say we would be gods if we were capable of processing that much information.
A shame that this doesn't make the argument that there's been so much science fiction written that there's a confirmation bias to confirm a minority of science fiction now rather than later. Not that I believe that, but it would have been a good point to see refuted with data I don't have access to myself, I think.
Fun fact : during the late 80s, Asimov asked the CEO of a Robotic america company that builded 1/3 of car factory automats : "where did you get this passion for robots ?" And the CEO told him that when he was young, he red Asimov :)
Double-entry accounting is 700 years old. What would the economy be like today if accounting had been mandatory in high school for the last 50 years? Is that science fiction? How could schools make it mandatory now without explaining why they didn't already do it?
So, teleportation and time travel could be possible, it's just we can't grasp the science of it and we have no knowledge yet. Right now, we think of it as magic??
I am amazed at how many things that were once science fiction are now real or at least real possibilities. I get real deep and far out when i consider what Virtual and Augmented Reality brings to the table. I honestly believe that VR and AR technology is the next 'game changer' in a similar way to how cellphones and the internet changed the world. We are entering a new paradigm in human experience that will have tremendous benefit but also dire consequences. That's another interesting point i've noticed... it seems with all new paradigm shifting technologies, there are always benefits (which is generally what is the intended purpose of these things) but misuse and abuse which can lead to new issues which we did not necessarily foresee. It's like there are built in 'casualties' in each new generation so that there can be change and growth, as we learn how to adapt and design new technologies in the future.
Einstein was reputed to have never been able to remember his own phone number. He said why bother when it was easy enough to look up in the phone book if he needed it.
The reason how science fiction can predict the future is when science fiction introduced new concepts to us, it hooks into our heads and inspired future generations to try to recreate it. Take the smart watch for example
Hi TED-Ed!! I am curious about one thing, a fly inside a moving car.So you see, it moves inside a moving car without hitting the windows or such, does it mean that it has the same speed as the car?I am absolutely curious. PS, I am a student of finance and not of physics
I'm not answering on behalf of Ted-Ed, but if you don't mind I'll offer this simple explanation: all speed, or 'velocity' is relative. If you are sitting in a car driving down the road, you are NOT moving relative to the car, but you ARE moving compared to anything outside the car. A fly buzzing around in the car is moving relative to you, the car, and the environment outside. Hope that makes sense.
P.S. oh, as to whether the fly has the same speed as the car, it would to an outside observer only if it (the fly) happened to be staying put in mid-air somehow.
nice very nice,,,,, i wrote one in the past a science fiction thing but its absurd and it still is hahahhaha but i love science fiction :D my favorite genre
Science fiction does not predict the future, it warns. Fantasy is about the quest, a more positive outlook if that is what you are looking for. Beware expectations, seek aspirations.
I love this narrator. He has such a pleasant voice.
Yes me too!
+Onyx the Fortuitous I just noticed that it was the same narrator; I assumed the lesson writers were the ones speaking :) But yeah he is good.
His voice is so relaxing that I'll fall asleep
The narrator's Addison Anderson
He’s Addison Anderson, and he narrates for a large number of Ted videos. Feel like his voice, and the Ted theme music, are now iconic.
I learn more from Ted Ed than I do at school
I learn more from games than I ever did from school. Math, order of operations, geography, navigation, myth, history, and probably a lot more
+BUTT HURT FAN BOY please don't say that
+BUTT HURT FAN BOY we won't 😊
then git gud scrub
Trump voter right here
Who else is watching this on a portable news pad
ME!!!
+TheGhost watch the video
+Kinzuko Well after 7 months or so, your news pad becomes an old pad.
does a smartphone count?
Us
Can we talk about how soothing his voice is ?
yassss :-D
His name is Roey Tzezana.
Well, he deserves a cookie !
+Josh Zuker thats the one who produced this vid. Addison Anderson narrated this (says in the credits)
why is everyone suddenly talking about his soothing voice just now? He's been narrating these videos for years
I actually thought about this several years ago. I found it funny how sci-fi works would often influence inventors and scientists to actually see if it could be done. They both need each other for it to happen: the creativity of the science fiction with the know-how of actual science.
That guy has the best voice for any ted ed video.
Agreed
There is also science fiction being self-fulfilling prophecies. Innovators might get inspiration from science fiction and create those science fiction technologies.
TED-ED is the chicken soup for my soul.
what are you talking about dude he's not a chicken for chicken soup
Is Bill Gates a Science Fiction writer? Because he makes windows...
Sry, Bad joke.
+Flynn Moers Too bad it crashed. hehehe
not very good ones though...
Excellent animation and examples of technology predicted by fiction. Thank you for a good watch.
Agreed
3:48 Also, either Joules Verns or H G Wells for-told the flat screen TV (or monitor) in one of his books written in the cowboy days. lol In what appeared to be a contemporary old drawing, it depicted about six, 3 ft flat thin TY screens set up in an office. But set in the isles on tall spindly stands (like projector screen stands)... not on the desks. Oh but so, so close. lol
One realistic Science Fiction novel I love and that could possibly become true is Red Mars. Absolutely stunning book!
The cartoon of the modern man, references to nuclear bombs, and a floating robot servant...I think somebody's a Fallout fan.
It can be more like fiction inspiring future inventions. Like how Futurama inspired Hyperloop and how the Jetsons inspired countless inventions that are standard today.
I'm watching this on a portable, flatscreen newspad. "Ermeghersh! Illuminati!"
Are they really predictions or inspirations for those products?
True. Star Trek also predicted a lot. I just hope we make it to a utopian Earth without war and poverty like they did.
+phxtonash Omg my dream and prayer everyday :)
+phxtonash Yes, bring on my replicator and holodeck!
Well this didn't age well
Much of what Star Trek did was taken from earlier stories some from mythology, religion, fairy tales, westerns, various movies and science fiction.
good luck , with that
I believe science fiction inspires the future but it does not predict it.
+Raul Baltazar I think it works both ways: inspiring and predicting
+Marly Tati I have to agree. I think that good sci-fi predicts what can be possible and it is these works that inspires people to make them happen. It is the young sci-fi reader that is filled with all these wonderful possibilities and then grows up with the want to make them real. But also a good sci-fi author can predict the trends they see and project them into a plausible future. While they might not unfold as written then can often be close enough.
+Saice
Exactly... Without inspiration there is no future. This is the reason why in the past many wars were fought and it took so long for humanity to advance in technology because people were not given the freedom to think. If it was not for inspiration we would be stuck in time, driving and producing the same vehicles year after year or people would keep dying from the same disease because no new cures were being made. People get inspired for different reasons and create their own future, some are so significant that affect all of us. Take for example the doctor whose mother died of cancer and from that tragedy got inspired to work 50 years non stop on a cure that he finally found several years later. For me prediction is when you have some sort of data and you calculate and make a prediction about the possible outcome, but for me the future is unpredictable.
Reed some Isaac asimov and then check out the date he wrote it.
even some great scientists today say that "imagination" is a useful tool to scientific advancement
I would just like to use this opportunity to remind you that our Back to the Future hoverboards are already several months late already. Chop chop inventors!
Cool
let's all hope George Orwells vision of the future won't ever become true
+Saskia H. isn't it already slowly becoming reality? Maybe not as bad as in "1984", but society steers in that direction if we don't do something about it.
TheAnakinn I actually think we're on the road of improvement. Human rights have improved the last 100 years and now are coming near to a goal point in the developed countries and we're trying to make the other countries join us too.
But a book like 1984 should still be read by everyone, to show what *could* be and actually is by a small degree. Do you think so too?
Saskia H.
This requires a more complex reply, so I'll split it up in two parts.
1. Human rights
I agree, human rights have improved over the last 100 years, but there's two things about that I've got problems with. The human rights were a code set up by the United Nations in 1948 at the onset of the cold war and were heavily influenced by the so called western world (which I'm a citizen of myself), so these rights are very one sided.
The second thing is, you said we're trying to make other countries join us. But by what means and actions? War and destruction leading to the rise of extremist factions? And when the economy demands it, we treat with countries who don't give a shit about human rights (i.e. Saudi Arabia or China)
2. 1984/Mass surveillance
100 years ago, the governments, or respectively their intelligence agencies, didn't have the tools of mass surveillance they have nowadays. Agencies like the NSA or the BND (German intelligence agency) don't only spy on "enemies" or non-allied states, but also on their allies AND their own populace. To which extent is yet unknown, because they always argue with "matters of highest state security, that threaten the state if revealed".
So do you really think we've improved and are on the right way? Or rather drifting towards Orwell's dystopia?
Sorry for the rambling :P
+Saskia H.
Well beside the equal rights for all race and sex, many goes backward.
In Europe, now, in many communities the government turns away / [retedn not to see when the local communties practice Sharia law. Big step backward.
A little more than 100 years the USA had no income tax. Now we are on the road to have the French type (Gestapo style)IRS implemented where the agents have their own power to issue search warrants it goes for other alphabet agencies as well.
As The Anakinn mentioned the drones, phone, computer and other surveillance also far from improvements. I type 4 keywords in this wonderful search engine and my text being automatically reported to another alphabet agencies to analyze.
The mainstream media took over the news and instead of presenting it, creating it in order to serve a propaganda machine.
People read Internet articles , that is mostly propaganda instead of books. The population is often brainwashed enough to vote for leaders who start wars with countries with names neither them nor the leaders can correctly pronounce like Iraq or Iran.
I could write pages and pages with examples how today;s college graduate is not an inch higher than an illiterate common person from 300 years ago, with not even half of the survival abilities and a complete dependency on consumption.
Improvement? Really?
Jon Snow
Slow down there for a minute. First of all, comparing the IRS to the Gestapo is a no go, just no. The Gestapo was an intelligence service that neglected any human right whatsoever and simply let people disappear, tortured and murdered people, whereas the IRS is a tax agency, so not in the least comparable!
Secondly, Sharia law in Europe and government turning away from that? Don't know which case exactly you're refering to, but yes, there have been so called "honor murders" and what not, but those are single cases and they are dealt with, not ignored!
As a third point, yes, we might not be able to survive on ourselves anymore, but that is a side effect of the evolution of our society and not necessarily a bad one. This way we are way more productive and innovative as a whole. Way better than 95% of the population just struggeling to survive don't you think? 1-2% of our population produce all the food we consume (which, to be fair, we consume too much of) leaving 98-99% to concentrate their efforts elswhere, be it scientific, cultural or artistic.
I'm more inclined, however, to agree with the media being used as a propaganda tool or at least in channeling the public opinion. From your examples I take it you live in the US and that is really the worst media I have seen in a western country so far. But even here in Germany I get the feeling the press is not as independent anymore as they once were, a few exceptions aside maybe.
Internet or computers/tablets/smartphones in general of course is the biggest source of intelligence for these kind of services. Honestly, who still reads terms and conditions? Anything could be said in there, even legalizing surveillance.
I enjoy watched TED-ed, is really good for my because I am practicing English. the topic in this video is nice. I would want watch the video about the dreams or prophetic dreams and why do we dream in color or black and white.
I'd say it hasn't predicted the future but inspired it
I think that it both inspires and predicts. Would we be thinking about a space elevator if it hadn't been proposed in sci fi? Here is an interesting article on this.
writerdreams.freeforums.net/thread/36/predictive-power-sci-fi
I wouldn't say that about everything.
I like the animation in this one.
Can you do one explaining Capital Gains and the taxation of it?
That video was amazing!
Great video ;)
I loved the video! Is there a transcript or captions available?
just always remember: nothing is impossible!
Agreed
but at the same time of making these predictions can they then become self-predicting? Especially in the terms of our own technological advancement?
great animation
Saw Neuromancer, thumbs up for you.
Nice project
What is fiction today will be the reality of tomorrow!
Sometimes that works the other way around. Look at how many people now think the moon landings were faked. In a hundred years, will kids be telling each other that slavery never happened?
+Paul Drake History can be corrupt but science not!
+Aryan Zagros that is not true
+Aryan Zagros Hey man, just letting you know that I featured your comment in one of my videos called "talk religion and pooping with me" .. Hope you don't mind, it was perfect for it!
can someone write the transcript
nice work
Loving It.
Maybe Steve Jobs got the iPad from 2001: A Space Odyssey. It definitely seems like he lifted Siri from there.
'Science Fiction predicts the future'. But I'm wondering if it's not sometimes the opposite, Science Fiction showing a possible future to the mass, a new 'realm of possibilities' and industrialists getting inspired by the reaction and trying to mold science fiction to a future reality with their products.
Doing a school assignment and I’m bored asf
One didn't predict the future through sci-fi until we see them as one.
That part about taking someone form the past and showing them the technology today makes me think of that line in outlast, where someone say "If you show a cave man technology they will think it's magic, but if you show a modern man magic they will think it's technology". :3
+eh dollet
A good portion of these 'modern' men/women think God did it all through magic. Oh, they might know how a light bulb works now but to them, something as complex as life obviously can't happen without the intervention of the Creator.
SQW0 I think I get what you mean and I agree(?), but at the same time no one needed to create life, life just happened in my opinion. :P :3
0:31 - 0:49 Was the RAND corporation working on such projects at the time they made those predictions? Wouldn't that be a self-fulfilling prophecy? RAND "Hey DARPA, what are you all working on and what is your estimated timeline development on those projects? We need to make some predictions here."
It is interesting to see how science fiction drives research and development of technologies.
VERY GOOD!!!!
But, isn't it more likely that futurists and science fiction authors only facilitate the creation of the useful things they think up, by presenting them to the world in the first place? I'm pretty sure that without Star Treck there would likely be no cell phones in our time.
That person who talked to the physicist looked like the Fallout guy who always has a thumbs up. Maybe Fallout can predict the future...
I like this animation
Nelly Bly made it around the world in 72 days which was less time than what Jules Verne had written in Around the world in 80 days, and visited him and his wife in France on the Journey.
We should not overlook that most trend watchers assisting the government are from think tanks sponsored by big businesses with their own interests, in short overlooking real issues (global warming, plastic in the ocean, antibiotics in food chain, etc) for economic opportunities.
Waw, amazing video
Huh, I might just have a future as a 'professional futurist.' Now that would be interesting.
Feel like this episode should/would be perfect if Kuhns work about the theory of anomalis and paradigm were included.
Game Theory has projected a hypothesis as to what exactly that future might be too
Subtitles would be appreciated!
My teacher said i have to shut up, so mabey i will lose my voice :D
4:02 That just about gave me a seizure
thx, tht was great
Back in the 90s William Gibson wrote about the future. Now he writes about the present. "The future is now."
1:03 They are now doing that with "quad-copter and drone airports". lol
What about manned multicopter theme parks?
Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy depicts the creation and aplication of a new science called psycohistory. It is used to calculate de galaxy empire decline and the 1000 years after to the second empire.
In many cases science fiction hasn't so much predicted the future as created it. We copy their ideas & make them real, and they might not have happened otherwise
If you get thousands of ideas about the future, then some of them are going to be somehow similar to what we get.
And just because that "news pad" is similar to modern tablets doesn't make it a good prediction. There are many details that make a tablet a tablet. None of which were predicted.
Take 2001 alone. Clarke predicted the table pc. But he also predicted a hard artificial intelligence and a spacestation and stuff. If you make 1000000 predictions and 100 become true, then it wasnt really a big surprise - especially when you only can tell a good prediction from a bad one AFTER it has been fulfilled or not.
So science fiction can not help predict the future. It only can make wild guesses.
Truly.
A little background music might do some good
If humans were capable of processing all of the laws of time and space within a reasonable length of time, then we could not predict the future, but know what lies ahead with a 100% guarantee. Then again, one might say we would be gods if we were capable of processing that much information.
A shame that this doesn't make the argument that there's been so much science fiction written that there's a confirmation bias to confirm a minority of science fiction now rather than later.
Not that I believe that, but it would have been a good point to see refuted with data I don't have access to myself, I think.
is it possible that the sci-fi books people are writing a influencing us to make those things
I love this
Fun fact : during the late 80s, Asimov asked the CEO of a Robotic america company that builded 1/3 of car factory automats : "where did you get this passion for robots ?" And the CEO told him that when he was young, he red Asimov :)
Double-entry accounting is 700 years old. What would the economy be like today if accounting had been mandatory in high school for the last 50 years? Is that science fiction? How could schools make it mandatory now without explaining why they didn't already do it?
So, teleportation and time travel could be possible, it's just we can't grasp the science of it and we have no knowledge yet. Right now, we think of it as magic??
Writers dream; engineers build.
Mary shelley not jules vernes
I am amazed at how many things that were once science fiction are now real or at least real possibilities. I get real deep and far out when i consider what Virtual and Augmented Reality brings to the table. I honestly believe that VR and AR technology is the next 'game changer' in a similar way to how cellphones and the internet changed the world.
We are entering a new paradigm in human experience that will have tremendous benefit but also dire consequences. That's another interesting point i've noticed... it seems with all new paradigm shifting technologies, there are always benefits (which is generally what is the intended purpose of these things) but misuse and abuse which can lead to new issues which we did not necessarily foresee. It's like there are built in 'casualties' in each new generation so that there can be change and growth, as we learn how to adapt and design new technologies in the future.
My grandmother worked for Rand. She's like, ridiculously smart but she somehow doesn't know how work her TV.
Einstein was reputed to have never been able to remember his own phone number. He said why bother when it was easy enough to look up in the phone book if he needed it.
The reason how science fiction can predict the future is when science fiction introduced new concepts to us, it hooks into our heads and inspired future generations to try to recreate it. Take the smart watch for example
I predict a new video on Thursday.
sharing creativity, and ideas, all the while motivating people to research in the direction of the movies/series/etc(wanting that)
4:00
Pls China, make GATTACA templates available for the whole world... it's boring being the one getting A+ in everything...
X)
Hi TED-Ed!! I am curious about one thing, a fly inside a moving car.So you see, it moves inside a moving car without hitting the windows or such, does it mean that it has the same speed as the car?I am absolutely curious. PS, I am a student of finance and not of physics
I'm not answering on behalf of Ted-Ed, but if you don't mind I'll offer this simple explanation: all speed, or 'velocity' is relative. If you are sitting in a car driving down the road, you are NOT moving relative to the car, but you ARE moving compared to anything outside the car. A fly buzzing around in the car is moving relative to you, the car, and the environment outside. Hope that makes sense.
P.S. oh, as to whether the fly has the same speed as the car, it would to an outside observer only if it (the fly) happened to be staying put in mid-air somehow.
I am here to predict time travel.
I am also from the future.
I win.
Watching this in summer holidays is so fun. I'm gonna be such a smart ass in school. XD
I will drop school and watch ted ed and the school of life!! #LifeHack
*No science fiction can't predict the future due to already having predicted the future*
What SciFi does is to suggest the future. People that like the ideas pursued them, as in the times of Jules Verne.
nice very nice,,,,, i wrote one in the past a science fiction thing but its absurd and it still is hahahhaha but i love science fiction :D my favorite genre
I predicted my future and it came true so science fiction might be real too.
Science fiction does not predict the future, it warns. Fantasy is about the quest, a more positive outlook if that is what you are looking for. Beware expectations, seek aspirations.
That's a science theory in my opinion science fiction is common to predict something not all the time
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fabric structures like nomadic African architecture
May I recommend myself az future animator
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so vim pela escola
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was the first sci-fi book.
sad you havent told anything about stanislaw lem
Isaac Asimov??
0:19 "Industry leader" looks like an evil scientist that's plotting to take over the world O-O.
The man in the brown suit has really scary eyes.