{"id":77309,"date":"2018-04-01T02:22:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T09:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/how-does-science-fiction-influence-the-real-world"},"modified":"2018-04-04T09:12:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T16:12:26","slug":"how-does-science-fiction-influence-the-real-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/how-does-science-fiction-influence-the-real-world","title":{"rendered":"How does science fiction influence the real world?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0F2hSqeLDQM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The tech-industry is led by sci-fi nerds who want to create the things they read about, or saw on screen.<\/p>\n<p>We all stand to benefit, provided that is, they can avoid the ethical pitfalls depicted in science fiction.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Steven Spielberg\u2019s new film \u201cReady Player One\u201d imagines a future where people live much of their lives in virtual reality. Do science fiction\u2019s predictions of the future ever come true? Yes. And it\u2019s no surprise, given that the tech industry is led by sci-fi fans turning their visions into reality.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re watching this on your phone it is partly thanks to Captain Kirk.<\/p>\n<p>In Star Trek, first broadcast in 1966 he used a pocket-sized device to communicate with his crew.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/how-does-science-fiction-influence-the-real-world\">Continue reading \u201cHow does science fiction influence the real world?\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tech-industry is led by sci-fi nerds who want to create the things they read about, or saw on screen. We all stand to benefit, provided that is, they can avoid the ethical pitfalls depicted in science fiction. Steven Spielberg\u2019s new film \u201cReady Player One\u201d imagines a future where people live much of their lives [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,2019,1514,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-elon-musk","category-space-travel","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77434,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77309\/revisions\/77434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}