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? ;-)
@Montrala
Жыл бұрын
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.
@Sci-FiOdyssey
Жыл бұрын
Interesting 🤔
@xavierxeon
Жыл бұрын
Regarding weapons, I can also recommend "Peace On Earth" by Lem
@Montrala
Жыл бұрын
@@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
@kaliscott1140
Жыл бұрын
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.'
@octavianulmeanu5570
Жыл бұрын
Good job man 💪
@summerkagan6049
Жыл бұрын
Ray Bradbury predicted the both the wired home in There Will Come Soft Rains and immersive virtual reality in The Veldt.
@TimMaxShift
Жыл бұрын
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.
@daxbashir6232
5 ай бұрын
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@mainstreet3023
11 ай бұрын
Great episode, Darrel. Don’t forget Paul used a tablet in preparation for moving to Arrakis. Also I remember Greg Bear had them too.
@rogercawkwell5413
Жыл бұрын
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 KZitem and video conferencing.
@subraxas
5 ай бұрын
Thank you, Darrel, for all these! ❤ ❤ ❤
@holydissolution85
Жыл бұрын
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 )
@Sci-FiOdyssey
Жыл бұрын
Thanks I’ll check that out!
@ivanandonov2730
Жыл бұрын
Please make more videos!!! You are very smart person and i really enjoying watching your content. Please make MORE VIDEOS!!!
@subraxas
5 ай бұрын
I once read a book from the 1970s and they already had there cars.
@summerkagan6049
Жыл бұрын
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.
@verduoh
Жыл бұрын
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.
@UCwlamXmPue-X67f6AYlgL3Q
Жыл бұрын
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.
@Sci-FiOdyssey
Жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣
@IRosamelia
Жыл бұрын
fyi he's an ape, not a monkey 🐒
@UCwlamXmPue-X67f6AYlgL3Q
Жыл бұрын
@@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.
@thomasciarlariello3228
Жыл бұрын
Excelent
@WayTooUnderated
Жыл бұрын
Gem channel
@daxbashir6232
5 ай бұрын
❤
@andresconchamaurelia2804
Жыл бұрын
Great vid as usual! I LOVE your sense of humor (as well as your deep knowledge of scifi)
@Sci-FiOdyssey
Жыл бұрын
Thanks. Sometimes I’m not sure how well it translates 😅
@andresconchamaurelia2804
Жыл бұрын
@@Sci-FiOdyssey it’s witty and sweet, worry not!
@_DarkEmperor
Жыл бұрын
I recommend "Summa Technologiae" by Lem, that is his famous futurology work.
@SoonGone
Жыл бұрын
Nice channel. Subbed. 🙂👍
@daxbashir6232
5 ай бұрын
❤
@yw1971
Жыл бұрын
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.
@scox7748
Жыл бұрын
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.
@jorge5213
Жыл бұрын
You are doing an amazing job !! Keep it up man! Greetings from Chile 🌶!
@daxbashir6232
5 ай бұрын
❤
@subraxas
2 ай бұрын
One of the best videos on the channel! At least in my opinion.
@Sci-FiOdyssey
2 ай бұрын
Thank you! Nice of you to say… it’s one of my favs too
@subraxas
2 ай бұрын
@@Sci-FiOdyssey 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.
@thomasciarlariello3228
Жыл бұрын
Rejection letters form editors
@euchiron
Жыл бұрын
I love this "what if" focus of sci-fi. Dreams slowly taking form.
@msmoco5898
Жыл бұрын
I never knew that the word Taser actually stood for something. Very interesting.
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