Comments on: Science Fiction Writer Predicted The Future https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/05/science-fiction-writer-predicted-the-future Safeguarding Humanity Mon, 20 May 2024 05:46:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: Aristocratic Jack https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/05/science-fiction-writer-predicted-the-future#comment-505670 Mon, 20 May 2024 05:46:57 +0000 https://lifeboat.com/blog/2024/05/science-fiction-writer-predicted-the-future#comment-505670 The mid 20th century was a time of fanciful predictions for future technologies. Most so far have proven to be empty nothing-burgers, especially the ones about civilian space travel and colonization. But other predictions were relatively accurate, like 1960s and 70s depictions of what appears to be cell phones.

Here’s some of the mid 20th century predictions that ended up coming true, and those that appear likely to come true in the next decade or so
* Robotic slaves in the domestic sphere. While we don’t yet have robot maids and butlers (if we ever do get them!), but we’ve got robot vacuum cleaners and lawn mowers, what ought to count for something.
*Tablets and cell phones. Movies like 2001-A Space Oddessey and shows like Star Trek famously predicted these.
*3d printers. They may not be the Star Trek style Replicators yet, but three dimensional printing has made toys, silverware, glasses, even entire buildings and bridges! The next frontiers for this tech could be food and organs.
*Mile tall skyscrapers. During the early 20th century, some architects started envisioning buildings with several hundred floors and rising more than a kilometer into the air. Multiple projects are slated to reach and even exceed the kilometre high mark, such as Saudi Arabia’s Kingdom\Jeddah Tower.

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