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- Science fiction often inspires the future rather than predicting it.
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Feb 19, 2019 · Science fiction isn’t limited to predicting tech developments: It’s more broadly concerned with imagining possible futures, or alternative presents.
Everyone from governments to military to industry leaders do as well, and they all employ people - called ‘futurists’ - who attempt to forecast the future. Roey Tzezana explains some of the ways that futurists venture to do so.
- In 1865, author Jules Verne released From Earth to the Moon, which described three Americans' mission to launch a spacecraft and land on the moon. Parts of the novel were similar to the first real moon landing, which occurred 104 years later.
- The iconic Communicator device on "Star Trek," first shown in 1966, looked a lot like a flip phone. Though engineers were working on developing this technology in the 1960s, it took Motorola until 1973 to debut the world's first mobile phone.
- 3D holograms have been featured in sci-fi for decades. In 2017, an Australian company claimed it has managed to produce a hologram table that resembles the futuristic holograms from the original "Star Wars" movie.
- "Star Trek" featured replicators that could 3D print food and everyday objects in a few seconds. Scientists are now using 3D printing technology to make objects out of plastic, metal, and glass, though the process is not nearly as fast.
Jan 26, 2016 · View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-science-fiction-can-help-predict-the-future-roey-tzezanaWould you like to know what’s in our future? What’s g...
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We’ve put together a list of 10 ways science fiction novels have predicted or, arguably, shaped the future we live in.
Sep 1, 2016 · That's precisely the kind of prediction science fiction does for society at large. It needs to be understood as a kind of modeling exercise, trying on various scenarios to see how they...
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