From Fiction To Fact: Sci-fi Tech Turned Reality || Exploring Futurism In Sci-fi (pt. 1)

Good job man 💪

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 )

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.

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.

My neurons thank you, Darrel, for going beyond just giving books scores.
Clearly, beyond just reading scifi, you do some homework and share it to our benefit. Kudos.
RALPH 124c41+ was a scientific romance that opened the doors to pulp fiction.
The series of numbers in the title are actually romantic for they explain how the scientist cares for his paramour.
124c41+ means One To Foresee for One+ (I think the + is the baby)..
(Notice the weak female needs the strong man's guidance. Echoes of the past..)

By the way the editor was a guy named Hugo Gernsback, and the HUGO Awards were not named after Victor Hugo!


Another major significant novel predicting virtual simulations is Simulacron 3 by Daniel F. Galouye. An absolute must read.

Can't wait for the next video part 2!
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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.'

Greg Bear - "Queen of Angels". 1990 (technology predictions / and societal predictions) - Beautiful abstract novel (even AI technology theories) that was overlooked during its release.

Without too many spoilers it structures its world around those who use technology to become "therapied" and those who are natural and chose to avoid intervention. 30 years ago when I read it I wasn't completely convinced an entire society could split and view each other with such distain for each side.

Enter C$vid-1984 and how the vaccinated battled those who were unvaccinated and the hatred for each side reached boiling points across the globe.

Greg Bear often predicted how easily groups of people could be manipulated by media and politics. Neither side wins.

I never knew that the word Taser actually stood for something. Very interesting.

Great vid as usual! I LOVE your sense of humor (as well as your deep knowledge of scifi)

So happy to see a properly researched video on tech from sci-fi (it cannot all be credited to Star Trek, as some seem to think). Here you go, a few more ...
AI (artificial Intelligence) – Samuel Butler: Erewhon, 1872.
Android (automaton) – E.Th.A. Hoffmann: “Die Automate”, 1814, and “Der Sandmann”, 1817.
Antidepressants – Aldous Huxley: Brave New World, 1931.
Automatic sliding door – H.G. Wells: When the Sleeper Wakes, 1899.
Botox – Marge Piercy: Woman on the Edge of Time, 1976.
Cloning (of humans) – Aldous Huxley: Brave New World, 1931.
Credit card – Edward Bellamy: Looking Backward: 2000–1887, 1888.
Crypto currencies – Bruce Sterling: Heavy Weather, 1994.
Cybernetics – Platon: The Republic, around 375 BC.
Interactive television – Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451, 1953.
Nuclear powered car (a handful were made in the 1950s and 1960s) – Peter Lind: Drømmen om i morgen (The Dream of Tomorrow), 1945.
Organ transplant – Mary Shelley: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, 1818.
PC (personal computer) – Marcus Morris: The Eagle, 1950.
Robot (the expression) – Karel Čapek: R.U.R., 1920.
Space station – Edward Everett Hale: The Brick Moon, 1869.
Teleportation – Edward Page Mitchell: “The Man Without a Body”, 1877 (another interesting example is Fred T. Jane: To Venus in Five Seconds, 1897).
Truth serum – Karin Boye: Kallocain, 1940.
Video streaming/DVR – John Brunner: Stand on Zanzibar, 1968.
Video surveillance – George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1949.
Voice activated app – Greg Egan: “Our Lady of Chernobyl”, 1994.

I love this "what if" focus of sci-fi. Dreams slowly taking form.

Great video! Thank you

Hi Darrel across the world! 💕

You are doing an amazing job !! Keep it up man! Greetings from Chile 🌶!

Please make more videos!!!

You are very smart person and i really enjoying watching your content.
Please make MORE VIDEOS!!!

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? ;-)

Positronic brains also came true...wait, I've said too much....
Zuckerberg is helping the metaverse manifest by making reality awful.

Great video !

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I recommend "Summa Technologiae" by Lem, that is his famous futurology work.

Excelent

Rejection letters form editors

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.

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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.

So I waited until the end to see if you would mention the, well my, nightmare fuel weapon system, bio/chemistry. In war of the worlds H.G. Wells describes the Martians pulling out oversized hollow looking stove pipes that spew forth a black smoke/dust/powder that hangs in the air and kills all plants and animals. It later sinks to the ground and is inert. Whether biological or chemical that weapon it is a non-persistant agent. Just a Cold Warrior here telling everyone about the terror dream that would wake us up wondering if we had to face weaponized anthrax or SARIN or TABUN or thickened_G.
P.S. the guy who came up with the design of the original Motorola Star Tac cell phone made it look that way because he wanted J.T. Kirk's communicator.

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.

Ray Bradbury predicted the both the wired home in There Will Come Soft Rains and immersive virtual reality in The Veldt.

Great episode, Darrel. Don’t forget Paul used a tablet in preparation for moving to Arrakis. Also I remember Greg Bear had them too.

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Thank you, Darrel, for all these! ❤ ❤ ❤

I once read a book from the 1970s and they already had there cars.

One of the best videos on the channel!
At least in my opinion.

Secondlife came first before metaverse. I've been in secondlife for ten years.

this is all hg wells fault